Outdoor Clothing Fund provides equal experiences
by Eleanor Smith, Keith Service Manager The outdoor clothing fund has opened opportunities to support all children to gain equal experiences in the outdoors. The benefits of outdoor play are …
Meet Katie our New Social Work Student in Aberdeenshire
Hi, I’m Katie a social work student from Robert Gordon University. This placement at Flexible Childcare Services Scotland is set to be both challenging and rewarding for me as I …
Meet Charlie our New Social Work Student in Aberdeenshire
My name is Charlie and I’m a social work student at Robert Gordons University. This is my first week of my placement at Flexible Childcare Services which will continue until …
Wrapping up to embrace the elements
by Lynda Young, Dundee Nursery Manager In a year where getting outdoors has been the much-needed respite from staying home or staying indoors, it has never been more important to …
We’re feeling warm inside and out thanks to the Outdoor Clothing Fund
by Kimberly Fyfe, NESCol Nursery Manager At Flexible Childcare Services Scotland’s NESCol Nursery, we are a free flow setting, children are given the opportunity to be outdoors all day, every day! …
The Elephant in the Sector
Let’s be honest, there is a bit of a white elephant in our sector, a subject that no one wants to speak about. That taboo subject would be, the dreaded …
Planning Permission for New Early Learning and Childcare facility has been approved
Dundee City Council has granted planning permission to Flexible Childcare Services Scotland (FCSS) so that they can renovate the former Fintry nursery in Dundee and create a new, state of …
Fintry residents welcome new community and environment initiative as part of new Centre of Childcare Excellence and Community Hub
Flexible Childcare Services Scotland (FCSS), the only charity in Scotland to champion flexible childcare, has been awarded a grant of more than £8,000 from the Scottish Government’s Community Climate Asset …
Life does not become better by chance, it becomes better through change!
by Fiona Ednie, Head of Workforce Strategy & Regional Lead for Highland & Moray, FCSS Just when I thought my 20+ years career in the childcare sector had reached a plateau …
