Scottish local government finance - Green Book: 2023-2024

Scottish Local Government Finance Settlement 2023-24: Funding Allocation Formula.


Early Learning and Childcare

Quantum (£000s): 1,001,485

Category: GAE

Note 1: merger of eight previous pre-school lines

Note 2: Modelling for this support line uses a number of different indicators for client count, deprivation and rurality. See Supplementary Tables

Note 3: Data taken from Pre-school Census (Sept 2022), Children in low income families (DWP 2020-21 data), SIMD, and 2011 census estimates of rurality.

Early Learning & Childcare
indicators weighted client numbers Effect 1 (£000s) weighted deprivation numbers Effect 2 (£000s) centres in areas of high SIMD Effect 3 (£000s) weighted rurality count Effect 4 (£000s) 2021-22 allocation for transition Share GAE
(£000s)
Aberdeen City 3,883 30,360 829 5,764 6 286 8 26 42,698 4% 38,257
Aberdeenshire 4,816 37,648 707 4,914 6 286 2,503 7,862 54,812 5% 51,735
Angus 1,899 14,849 525 3,648 4 191 515 1,618 20,340 2% 20,190
Argyll & Bute 1,272 9,944 283 1,971 5 238 556 1,745 16,302 1% 14,598
City of Edinburgh 8,017 62,677 1,665 11,577 21 1,001 101 317 82,948 8% 77,513
Clackmannanshire 914 7,143 333 2,313 8 381 90 284 9,590 1% 9,884
Dumfries & Galloway 2,319 18,129 703 4,886 10 477 900 2,826 24,932 3% 25,700
Dundee City 2,605 20,368 784 5,452 21 1,001 39 122 29,243 3% 27,527
East Ayrshire 2,438 19,058 942 6,552 13 620 631 1,982 24,400 3% 26,789
East Dunbartonshire 2,033 15,892 289 2,011 4 191 80 252 19,250 2% 18,527
East Lothian 2,096 16,388 374 2,600 4 191 507 1,593 21,776 2% 20,971
East Renfrewshire 1,921 15,019 260 1,809 2 95 62 195 14,626 2% 16,196
Falkirk 2,833 22,146 825 5,740 10 477 300 943 32,204 3% 30,071
Fife 6,691 52,308 2,052 14,273 28 1,335 1,002 3,147 67,869 7% 69,575
Glasgow City 11,259 88,020 3,931 27,339 103 4,910 82 257 114,211 12% 117,708
Highland 3,915 30,605 966 6,721 10 477 1,675 5,263 47,849 4% 44,361
Inverclyde 1,295 10,126 391 2,720 10 477 41 129 15,266 1% 13,962
Midlothian 2,215 17,315 516 3,588 2 95 377 1,183 22,668 2% 22,202
Moray 1,576 12,318 413 2,869 1 48 591 1,857 18,946 2% 17,592
Na h-Eileanan Siar 397 3,106 90 625 1 48 266 836 5,666 0% 4,929
North Ayrshire 2,134 16,683 740 5,148 24 1,144 224 705 25,536 2% 24,140
North Lanarkshire 6,393 49,976 1,972 13,716 44 2,097 779 2,448 68,091 7% 67,764
Orkney Islands 376 2,943 62 435 1 48 252 790 4,471 0% 4,273
Perth & Kinross 2,462 19,247 618 4,297 2 95 1,102 3,461 26,405 3% 26,704
Renfrewshire 3,412 26,677 914 6,357 25 1,192 252 793 36,757 4% 35,369
Scottish Borders 1,814 14,183 428 2,979 4 191 902 2,832 22,961 2% 20,967
Shetland Islands 422 3,297 73 505 1 48 303 951 5,646 1% 5,048
South Ayrshire 1,824 14,259 513 3,571 8 381 420 1,320 18,299 2% 19,006
South Lanarkshire 6,128 47,908 1,610 11,194 32 1,525 547 1,718 58,106 6% 60,570
Stirling 1,520 11,885 364 2,530 5 238 555 1,744 19,253 2% 17,229
West Dunbartonshire 1,676 13,099 601 4,181 19 906 7 24 17,526 2% 17,872
West Lothian 3,522 27,537 937 6,515 17 810 271 853 31,937 3% 34,256
Total 96,078 751,114 25,709 178,799 451 21,498 15,941 50,074 1,020,585 100% 1,001,485
weights 75.0% 17.9% 2.1% 5.0%

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