Early Learning and Childcare: Services Registered

The Care Inspectorate registers daycare of children services and childminders, which this report will collectively refer to as early learning and childcare services. For the purposes of this report, this includes daycare services only provided for school-aged children such as out of school care services and holiday play schemes.

Comprehensive definitions of the terms used can be accessed in the statistical reports published on the Care Inspectorate website

Not assessed

The National Records of Scotland mid-year population estimates have been used to calculate rates.

This dataset is published annually.

Not assessed

Not assessed

Where a daycare of children service did not submit an annual return, but did submit a return in either of the previous two years, the information submitted in the most recent historic annual return was used to impute the missing data.

Where a service has not provided any information in either of the two previous years or where a service was newly registered, missing data has been estimated.

To estimate missing data, we have considered the following variables: service size; service location (local authority area and level of deprivation) and service category (nursery, playgroup and so on). We then estimated the missing data using average values from services based on the above criteria.

Early learning and childcare statistics are not subject to routine revision.

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