Scottish Government has committed to better understanding and testing how to deliver high-quality, local, affordable and accessible childcare which supports family wellbeing and employment and helps lift families out of poverty. We are working to build our evidence base in this area and are seeking an intern to help us with this. The project will involve gathering, critically evaluating and summarising evidence from a range of sources to fill identified evidence gaps. These will be confirmed and agreed at the outset of the project, but are likely to include evidence on childcare experiences, barriers and needs for marginalised groups such as minority ethnic and disabled mothers and carers. We would then like the intern to produce engaging, clear and concise outputs summarising the key evidence for policymakers. This would involve consulting with the intended users to scope out their needs and ensuring that the final output is as useful as possible in informing policymaking decisions.
This internship would be an exciting opportunity to contribute to developing our evidence base in this area, and to ensure that this evidence is easily available and useable for policymakers during this period of innovative policy development.