Acknowledgements
The Project Team would like to thank all of the local authorities, schools, teachers and pupils for their participation in the study. As always in such reports, they remain anonymous, but their co-operation has been of fundamental importance and, in particular, we would like to express our appreciation for the hospitality we received from schools and the care and attention with which they treated our enquiries. Thanks are also due to Miss Maria Cassidy of the Department of Educational Studies in the University of Glasgow for her expert help with early learning issues.