The first apprenticeships will start this year and be funded by the £16m announced in the Scottish Budget for the recruitment of 7,800 new apprentices.
Fiona Hyslop, Cabinet Secretary for Education and Lifelong Learning, said: "These apprenticeships will not only help young people into rewarding childcare careers, but will support the expansion of the sector - allowing the additional capacity to help deliver on our commitment to increasing pre-school entitlement and allowing more parents back to work."
Meanwhile NHS organisations in England will receive a total of £25m to create 5,000 new NHS apprenticeships by March 2010, Health Secretary Andy Burnham has said.
The money is part of the government's £140m investment in 35,000 public and private sector apprenticeships announced in February this year.
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