The Policy Note also explains that without the provision in these Regulations, there is a risk that insufficient new infrastructure would be completed in time to meet the Scottish Government commitment of increasing the early learning and childcare entitlement for eligible pre-school children from 600 to 1140 hours by the end of the next Parliament (2020).
At the point of laying the draft Regulations for consideration by the Parliament and their publication by the National Archives, neither the Regulations nor the 2010 Act (by virtue of which they would be made) have included a definition of “nursery school”.