– Scottish Parliament written question – answered at on 18 March 2003.
Question S1W-34213
To ask the Scottish Executive how many nurseries have qualified nursery teachers on their staff.
The information requested is provided in the following table.
Pre-School Education and Daycare Centres with Qualified Teachers1
January 2002
Pre-School Education Centres | Daycare Centres | All Centres | |
No. Centres | 2,597 | 1,520 | 4,117 |
No. Centres With Qualified Teachers2 | 1,600 | 191 | 1,791 |
Notes:
1. In addition to qualified teachers, centres may have qualified early education and child care leaders/co-ordinators, and qualified early education and child care playworkers/assistants, as well as staff without formal qualifications in teaching or child care.
2. Centres may have more than one qualified teacher. There were 2,435 qualified teachers working in pre-school education and daycare centres in January 2002.
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