High Level Summary of Statistics Trend Last update: Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Pre-school Education
In January 2009 there were 2,645 local authority or partnership pre-school education providers in Scotland. Fifty four centres provided pre-school education in the Gaelic medium.
There were 105,420 children registered for pre-school places funded by the local authority, of which 3,750 were under 3.
Ninety six per cent of children eligible, or 97,200 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 any small year-on-year changes should be treated with some caution.
There were 1,638 whole time equivalent (WTE) GTCS registered teachers, which is 34 WTE fewer than in 2008.
Sixty eight 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. Thirty two per cent of pre-schools said they received occasional or ad hoc support from GTCS registered teachers.
Seventy 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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