Childcare Abbreviations
Anyone new starting in Care and Learning Alliance might be baffled by the number of abbreviations in the company and in the childcare sector as a whole!
So… following our core priority of ‘the right help at the right time’ this page is going to be the place to come if you need an abbreviation explained.
Please get in touch if you have an abbreviation to add – every little helps! E. [email protected]
APW Assistant Playworker
BTA Building the Ambition
CAM Community Asset Mapping
CfE Curriculum for Excellence
CLF Continuous Learning Framework
CPD Continuous Professional Development
CPM Childhood Practice Manager
DSM Direct Services Manager
ELCC Early Learning and Childcare
EY Early Years
EYC Early Years Collaborative
GIRFEC Getting it right for every child
GSW Group Support Worker
HC Highland Council
LA Local Authority
MTfP Making Time for Play
OS Out of School
OOSC Out of School Club/Out of School Care
PCP Peripatetic Childcare Practitioner
PiP Play into Practice (training course)
PLiP Play & Learning into Practice (training course)
PPA Play Practice Advisor
PSP Public Social Partnership
PT Principal Teacher
PTGF Parent & Toddler Group Facilitator
PW Playworker
SLA Service Level Agreement
SLF Scottish Learning Festival
SPW Senior Playworker
SSSC Scottish Social Services Council
TSI Third Sector Interface
UNCRC United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child