Pre-school and Childcare Statistics 2007

Table 4: Total number of services and facilities by management sector, area deprivation and rurality (excluding childminders), January 2007

	Nursery	Playgroup	Out of school club	Breakfast club	Creche	Children/ family centre	Sitter service	Holiday play scheme	Family support	Professional health care	Gaelic provision	Outdoor play area
	Service
Number
SCOTLAND	2,550	704	1,118	480	307	195	38	803	788	374	81	3,096
Management Sector
Public	1,551	58	245	158	86	115	0	172	490	276	45	1,518
Private	678	88	327	161	85	18	17	221	111	51	2	709
Voluntary	304	555	520	153	132	55	21	395	182	45	33	850
Unknown	17	3	26	8	4	7	0	15	5	2	1	19
Area Deprivation
Most deprived	843	128	380	162	164	138	20	303	400	143	21	970
Intermediate	980	272	370	169	84	36	6	242	236	139	53	1,140
Least deprived	727	304	368	149	59	21	12	258	152	92	7	986
Rurality
Urban areas	1,594	322	762	308	227	162	29	565	576	233	19	1,896
Small towns	303	125	138	74	39	23	1	114	90	46	10	395
Rural areas	647	257	217	97	41	9	7	124	122	94	52	800
Unknown	6	0	1	1	0	1	1	0	0	1	0	5
*Percentage of centres*
SCOTLAND	*59.1*	*16.3*	*25.9*	*11.1*	*7.1*	*4.5*	*0.9*	*18.6*	*18.3*	*8.7*	*1.9*	*71.7*
Management Sector
Public	85.0	3.2	13.4	8.7	4.7	6.3	0.0	9.4	26.9	15.1	2.5	83.2
Private	65.5	8.5	31.6	15.6	8.2	1.7	1.6	21.4	10.7	4.9	0.2	68.5
Voluntary	21.8	39.8	37.2	11.0	9.5	3.9	1.5	28.3	13.0	3.2	2.4	60.9
Unknown	28.3	5.0	43.3	13.3	6.7	11.7	0.0	25.0	8.3	3.3	1.7	31.7
Area Deprivation
Most deprived	60.2	9.1	27.1	11.6	11.7	9.9	1.4	21.6	28.6	10.2	1.5	69.2
Intermediate	62.4	17.3	23.6	10.8	5.3	2.3	0.4	15.4	15.0	8.8	3.4	72.6
Least deprived	54.1	22.6	27.4	11.1	4.4	1.6	0.9	19.2	11.3	6.9	0.5	73.4
Rurality
Urban areas	58.9	11.9	28.2	11.4	8.4	6.0	1.1	20.9	21.3	8.6	0.7	70.1
Small towns	55.2	22.8	25.1	13.5	7.1	4.2	0.2	20.8	16.4	8.4	1.8	71.9
Rural areas	61.4	24.4	20.6	9.2	3.9	0.9	0.7	11.8	11.6	8.9	4.9	75.9
Unknown	85.7	0.0	14.3	14.3	0.0	14.3	14.3	0.0	0.0	14.3	0.0	71.4
*Percentage of sector*
SCOTLAND	*100.0*	*100.0*	*100.0*	*100.0*	*100.0*	*100.0*	*100.0*	*100.0*	*100.0*	*100.0*	*100.0*	*100.0*
Management Sector
Public	60.8	8.2	21.9	32.9	28.0	59.0	0.0	21.4	62.2	73.8	55.6	49.0
Private	26.6	12.5	29.2	33.5	27.7	9.2	44.7	27.5	14.1	13.6	2.5	22.9
Voluntary	11.9	78.8	46.5	31.9	43.0	28.2	55.3	49.2	23.1	12.0	40.7	27.5
Unknown	0.7	0.4	2.3	1.7	1.3	3.6	0.0	1.9	0.6	0.5	1.2	0.6
Area Deprivation
Most deprived	33.1	18.2	34.0	33.8	53.4	70.8	52.6	37.7	50.8	38.2	25.9	31.3
Intermediate	38.4	38.6	33.1	35.2	27.4	18.5	15.8	30.1	29.9	37.2	65.4	36.8
Least deprived	28.5	43.2	32.9	31.0	19.2	10.8	31.6	32.1	19.3	24.6	8.6	31.8
Rurality
Urban areas	62.5	45.7	68.2	64.2	73.9	83.1	76.3	70.4	73.1	62.3	23.5	61.2
Small towns	11.9	17.8	12.3	15.4	12.7	11.8	2.6	14.2	11.4	12.3	12.3	12.8
Rural areas	25.4	36.5	19.4	20.2	13.4	4.6	18.4	15.4	15.5	25.1	64.2	25.8
Unknown	0.2	0.0	0.1	0.2	0.0	0.5	2.6	0.0	0.0	0.3	0.0	0.2

Note: A single centre can provide multiple services.

Figures reported are likely to be undercounts as some centres only provided information about their main service.

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