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The National (Scotland)
The National (Scotland)
National
Ninian Wilson

Brexit slams Scottish nurseries with staffing issues, new report finds

The number of EU nationals working in childcare has dropped from around 2300 to below 1600

BREXIT has heaped pressure on Scotland’s nurseries with a third of EU staff leaving the sector since 2018, a new report has found.

The study, which was a repeat of research commissioned in 2017, found that the number of EU nationals working in childcare had dropped from around 2300 to below 1600 since Brexit.

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