High Level Summary of Statistics Trend Last update: Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Pre-school Education
In January 2008 there were 2,702 local authority or partnership pre-school education providers in Scotland. Fifty seven centres provided pre-school education in the Gaelic medium.
There were 106,060 children registered for pre-school places funded by the local authority, of which 5,370 were under 3. The large decrease in under 3 year olds (from 12,910 in 2007) is mainly due to a change in wording of the question to explicitly exclude children in places not funded by the local authority.
Ninety six per cent of children eligible, or 96,130 in total, were registered for the ante-pre-school or pre-school year of pre-school education. This figure is based on a series of estimations and so should be treated with caution.
There were 1,672 whole time equivalent ( WTE) GTCS registered teachers, including 204 WTE teachers shared between centres.
Sixty six per cent of pre-schools had GTCS registered teachers who provided pre-school education under a regular arrangement, whether employed by the centre or shared with other centres. Twenty three per cent of pre-schools said they received occasional or ad hoc support from GTCS registered teachers.
Sixty six per cent of pre-school children had access to a GTCS registered teacher during census week. This includes children whose access was to a teacher providing only ad hoc or occasional support to the centre.
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