High Level Summary of Statistics Trend Last update: Monday, December 12, 2011
Pre-school Education
In September 2011 there were 2,553 local authority or partnership pre-school education providers in Scotland.
There were 94,840 children registered for pre-school places funded by the local authority at September 2011, and that 99.5% of eligible children were registered for the ante-pre-school or pre-school year of pre-school education. These figures are based on a series of estimations and some children may be counted more than once if they are registered to receive local authority funded pre-school education in more than one centre.
74.9 per cent of children in centres had access to a General Teaching Council for Scotland (GTCS) registered teacher during census week, up from 74.4 the previous year. This includes children whose access was to a teacher providing only ad hoc or occasional support to the centre during census week.
There were 1,471 whole time equivalent (WTE) GTCS registered teachers in pre-school centres, which is 72 WTE fewer than in September 2010. Also, there were 25 WTE pre-school home visiting teachers, which is 5 WTE more than in September 2010.
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