High Level Summary of Statistics Trend Last update: Thursday, April 24, 2008
Pre-school Education
In January 2007 there were 2,750 local authority or partnership pre-school education providers in Scotland. Fifty four centres reported provided pre-school education in Gaelic.
As of January 2007 there were 111,720 registrations for pre-school education registrations in Scotland. This figure includes 12,910 registrations of children aged under 3, an increase of more than 50 per cent since 2006, and 4,390 registrations of children deferring entry to primary school.
97.4 per cent of children eligible for free ante-pre-school or pre-school education (3 and 4 year olds) were registered with local authority or partnership pre-school education centres. This figure is almost unchanged on 2006. It is important to note that children are counted once for every pre-school centre they attend, so the figures above may include some double counting.
As of September 2007 the full-time equivalent number of pre-school teachers registered with the General Teaching Council for Scotland ( GTCS) was 1,514. Sixty five per cent of pre-school education providers had access to at least one GTCS registered teacher.
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