Childcare providers in the private and third sectors, including out-of-school care providers are to be supported in Scotland with an £11.2million Transitional Support Fund from the Scottish Government.

The grants are a recognition of the additional costs to providers by the extra health and safety measures required due to Covid19.

Grants will be available to all private and third sector childcare providers, not just those delivering funded early learning and childcare.

More information on this will follow at the end of July.