Creative Skills is Starcatchers’ unique artist-facilitated training programme. We give early years professionals – nursery, family centre and out-of-school care staff, teachers, childminders and play workers – the confidence and skills to put expressive arts at the heart of practice. Normally, we run practical, hands-on training in local authorities across Scotland focussing on art-forms including music, puppetry, drama, visual art and creative movement.

Due to current circumstances, we are currently exploring how to nurture creativity in ELC in times of social distancing. We want to hear from you! Your responses will be used to help shape our programme of online delivery in 2020/21 to best support the ELC workforce.

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* 1. What is your role in the Early Learning and Childcare workforce in Scotland?

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* 2. Which local authority in Scotland do you work within?

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* 3. What are the biggest barriers to providing creative experiences for the children you work with?

Please rank these with 10 being the largest barrier to your work, and 1 being the smallest/not a barrier at all.

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* 4. What do you need to be creative in your role? (e.g. practical ideas)

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* 5. How can Starcatchers help support creativity?

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* 6. What do we need to remember when developing new creative practice?

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* 7. Which of the following resources from Creative Skills would you be interested in? (Tick all that apply)

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* 8. Do you have any other feedback or comments?

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