{"id":5013,"date":"2026-05-28T10:27:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T10:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/soundnursery\/?p=5013"},"modified":"2026-05-28T10:27:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T10:27:21","slug":"elc-provision-consultation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/soundnursery\/2026\/05\/28\/elc-provision-consultation\/","title":{"rendered":"ELC Provision consultation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5014 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/soundnursery\/uploads\/sites\/3147\/2026\/05\/28102644\/ELC-consultation-poster-211x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"211\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/soundnursery\/uploads\/sites\/3147\/2026\/05\/28102644\/ELC-consultation-poster-211x300.jpg 211w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/soundnursery\/uploads\/sites\/3147\/2026\/05\/28102644\/ELC-consultation-poster.jpg 646w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 211px) 100vw, 211px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Shetland Islands Council has launched a childcare consultation to gather views from parents and carers on current childcare provision across Shetland and to help shape future services.<\/p>\n<p>The survey is split into 3 sections and is aimed at:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>parents and carers with children currently accessing funded early learning and childcare: <a href=\"https:\/\/eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fforms.office.com%2Fe%2FW4URDjVad1&amp;data=05%7C02%7CJennifer.Williamson%40shetland.gov.uk%7C8eb5f4269f684a99f0cf08debc9b013c%7C4de7f3ac9e12481cb2f1b2419c1a1c21%7C0%7C0%7C639155571361779744%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=q6n832ddH1kAyEQdrXaWGn8IkoHoBl3SG0Sh%2FkcCze0%3D&amp;reserved=0\">Childcare Consultation 2026 &#8211; Section A: Funded Early Learning and Childcare \u2013 Fill out form<\/a><\/li>\n<li>families with a child under 3 years old: <a href=\"https:\/\/eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fforms.office.com%2Fe%2FVwAAcd5KTc&amp;data=05%7C02%7CJennifer.Williamson%40shetland.gov.uk%7C8eb5f4269f684a99f0cf08debc9b013c%7C4de7f3ac9e12481cb2f1b2419c1a1c21%7C0%7C0%7C639155571361799725%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=1Irrey4gzyTzjqpmI5YO3LA8UuMycqIveZgIydqCldk%3D&amp;reserved=0\">Childcare Consultation 2026 &#8211; Section B: Questions for parents\/carers with a child under 3 \u2013 Fill out form<\/a><\/li>\n<li>parents and carers of school aged children: <a href=\"https:\/\/eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fforms.office.com%2Fe%2FkuM0j4hW00&amp;data=05%7C02%7CJennifer.Williamson%40shetland.gov.uk%7C8eb5f4269f684a99f0cf08debc9b013c%7C4de7f3ac9e12481cb2f1b2419c1a1c21%7C0%7C0%7C639155571361823070%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=EeYSdp6MBvHeNIXCJTcRjiAE7V4RXRbyjrWQmN7%2B5UE%3D&amp;reserved=0\">Childcare Consultation 2026 &#8211; Section C: School aged Childcare \u2013 Fill out form<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Please take a minute to engage with this consultation and have your say in how childcare in Shetland looks in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shetland Islands Council has launched a childcare consultation to gather views from parents and carers on current childcare provision across Shetland and to help shape future services. The survey is split into 3 sections and is aimed at: parents and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/soundnursery\/2026\/05\/28\/elc-provision-consultation\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3712,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/soundnursery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/soundnursery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/soundnursery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/soundnursery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3712"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/soundnursery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5013"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/soundnursery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5015,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/soundnursery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5013\/revisions\/5015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/soundnursery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/soundnursery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/soundnursery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}