SUMMARY RESULTS OF THE 2003: PRE-SCHOOL AND DAYCARE CENSUS
Table 4: Services provided by pre-school education or daycare centres by main type of facility and type of service available Scotland, January 2003
Service provided | Main type of facility | Total |
Nursery | Playgroup | Playscheme | Out of School Care Club | Creche | Family Centre |
Total Number of Centres | 2,148 | 875 | 187 | 623 | 159 | 285 | 4,277 |
Nursery | 2,148 | 15 | 28 | 56 | 10 | 186 | 2,443 |
Playgroup | 26 | 875 | 23 | 37 | 10 | 174 | 1,145 |
Holiday playscheme | 56 | 13 | 187 | 204 | 36 | 159 | 655 |
Out of school care | 126 | 6 | 53 | 623 | 34 | 185 | 1,027 |
Creche | 18 | 10 | 22 | 60 | 159 | 159 | 428 |
Family Centre | 6 | 1 | 27 | 0 | 24 | 244 | 302 |
Family support services | 182 | 25 | 34 | 39 | 28 | 106 | 414 |
Adult education / activities | 137 | 38 | 27 | 50 | 46 | 87 | 385 |
Full daycare / education | 754 | 16 | 16 | 108 | 9 | 101 | 1,004 |
Sessional daycare / education | 1,313 | 537 | 92 | 266 | 55 | 178 | 2,441 |
Parent's group | 365 | 78 | 30 | 42 | 21 | 115 | 651 |
Parent's room | 466 | 46 | 7 | 21 | 8 | 95 | 643 |
Mobile resource / playbus | 15 | 4 | 5 | 11 | 10 | 9 | 54 |
Home visiting | 153 | 5 | 6 | 11 | 6 | 81 | 262 |
Baby & toddler facilities | 479 | 230 | 26 | 33 | 82 | 156 | 1,006 |
Learning library | 405 | 34 | 8 | 17 | 4 | 34 | 502 |
Transport / escort duties | 187 | 23 | 27 | 197 | 2 | 68 | 504 |
Outdoor play area / playground | 1,708 | 360 | 69 | 381 | 24 | 197 | 2,739 |
Outreach | 52 | 6 | 11 | 22 | 19 | 79 | 189 |
Gaelic provision | 28 | 26 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 61 |
Other | 143 | 67 | 60 | 121 | 29 | 47 | 467 |
Total number of services | 8,767 | 2,415 | 758 | 2,304 | 616 | 2,462 | 17,322 |
Proportion of centres offering different services
Service provided | Main type of facility | Total |
Nursery | Playgroup | Playscheme | Out of School Care Club | Creche | Family Centre |
Nursery | 100% | 2% | 15% | 9% | 6% | 65% | 57% |
Playgroup | 1% | 100% | 12% | 6% | 6% | 61% | 27% |
Holiday playscheme | 3% | 1% | 100% | 33% | 23% | 56% | 15% |
Out of school care | 6% | 1% | 28% | 100% | 21% | 65% | 24% |
Creche | 1% | 1% | 12% | 10% | 100% | 56% | 10% |
Family Centre | 0% | 0% | 14% | 0% | 15% | 86% | 7% |
Family support services | 8% | 3% | 18% | 6% | 18% | 37% | 10% |
Adult education / activities | 6% | 4% | 14% | 8% | 29% | 31% | 9% |
Full daycare / education | 35% | 2% | 9% | 17% | 6% | 35% | 23% |
Sessional daycare / education | 61% | 61% | 49% | 43% | 35% | 62% | 57% |
Parent's group | 17% | 9% | 16% | 7% | 13% | 40% | 15% |
Parent's room | 22% | 5% | 4% | 3% | 5% | 33% | 15% |
Mobile resource / playbus | 1% | 0% | 3% | 2% | 6% | 3% | 1% |
Home visiting | 7% | 1% | 3% | 2% | 4% | 28% | 6% |
Baby & toddler facilities | 22% | 26% | 14% | 5% | 52% | 55% | 24% |
Learning library | 19% | 4% | 4% | 3% | 3% | 12% | 12% |
Transport / escort duties | 9% | 3% | 14% | 32% | 1% | 24% | 12% |
Outdoor play area / playground | 80% | 41% | 37% | 61% | 15% | 69% | 64% |
Outreach | 2% | 1% | 6% | 4% | 12% | 28% | 4% |
Gaelic provision | 1% | 3% | 0% | 1% | 0% | 1% | 1% |
Other | 7% | 8% | 32% | 19% | 18% | 16% | 11% |
Change 2002 to 2003
Service provided | Main type of facility | Total |
Nursery | Playgroup | Playscheme | Out of School Care Club | Creche | Family Centre |
Total Number of Centres | 44 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Nursery | 44 | -24 | 28 | 42 | 8 | 101 | 199 |
Playgroup | -27 | -194 | 18 | 20 | -4 | 134 | -53 |
Holiday playscheme | 21 | -18 | 38 | 85 | 8 | 98 | 232 |
Out of school care | -174 | -16 | 38 | 159 | 14 | 102 | 123 |
Creche | -51 | -24 | 9 | 38 | 4 | 65 | 41 |
Family Centre | * | * | * | * | * | * | * |
Family support services | 37 | 12 | 26 | 18 | 17 | -15 | 95 |
Adult education / activities | 20 | -2 | 12 | 19 | 9 | -29 | 29 |
Full daycare / education | 193 | 10 | 13 | 71 | 7 | 25 | 319 |
Sessional daycare / education | 563 | 393 | 82 | 224 | 29 | 97 | 1,388 |
Parent's group | 17 | -4 | 22 | 12 | 7 | -20 | 34 |
Parent's room | 7 | 5 | 7 | 10 | -3 | 0 | 26 |
Mobile resource / playbus | 5 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 22 |
Home visiting | 9 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 21 |
Baby & toddler facilities | 83 | -33 | 13 | 15 | 18 | 28 | 124 |
Learning library | 15 | -8 | 6 | 7 | 0 | -2 | 18 |
Transport / escort duties | 18 | -2 | 16 | 75 | 2 | -7 | 102 |
Outdoor play area / playground | 196 | 22 | 38 | 144 | 7 | 70 | 477 |
Outreach | 0 | -1 | 8 | 8 | 3 | -14 | 4 |
Gaelic provision | * | * | * | * | * | * | * |
Other | 24 | 13 | 26 | 64 | 6 | -7 | 126 |
Total number of services | 818 | 150 | 431 | 873 | 155 | 848 | 3,275 |
Note: * represents a cell where information was not collected in 2002, - represents a cell where there were no centres in 2002 providing this service