Early learning and childcare funding: Primary 1 deferral pilot evaluation

Footnotes

1. Deferred entry to primary school statistics, Scottish Government. 2018 (updated 2020)

2. Children born from March to beginning of the academic year (mid August) are not currently entitled to defer or receive an additional year of ELC funding as they will turn five before starting school.

3. Getting it right for every child (GIRFEC), Scottish Government website.

4. Technically, those born mid-August-December but 'August-December' has been used for brevity throughout the report.

5. Early learning and childcare access in a deferred year: joint implementation plan - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

6. Two postcodes were not found in urban-rural or SIMD classifications

7. These figures also do not account for the number of eligible children who have left or moved to Scotland between birth and the point at which they would be informed about the funding.

8. It should be noted that school census data provides the age of children in P1 and no details on whether the child had been in an ELC setting the year before, nor whether they had received ELC funding in that year. This is a further limitation of data analysis undertaken. However the deferral rates calculated are still useful 'best estimates' for investigating differences between pilot areas and the national picture.

9. Distribution of deprivation by council area, using 2020 SIMD data.

10. The campaigns include Give Them Time and Upstart Scotland.

11. Deferred entry to primary school statistics, 2018. Scottish Government.

12. At least one pilot area agreed to fund such places in this scenario (another said they were still in discussions with neighbouring LAs).

13. Give Them Time website. Upstart Scotland website.