Probationary primary teachers school allocations 2020: FOI release

Information request and response under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002.


Information requested

1. How many probationary primary teachers were placed in schools this summer 2020 across Scotland?

2. Do the schools request probationer or do they just get placed?

Response

1.

TIS 2020 Allocations 02/06/2020  
  Primary
Aberdeen City  62
Aberdeenshire 102
Angus  25
Argyll & Bute  23
City of Edinburgh  93
Clackmannanshire  22
Comhairle nan Eilean Siar  4
Dumfries & Galloway  56
Dundee City  55
East Ayrshire  51
East Dunbartonshire  78
East Lothian  41
East Renfrewshire  89
Falkirk  64
Fife  195
Glasgow City  236
Highland  51
Inverclyde  31
Jordanhill  0
Midlothian  37
Moray  15
North Ayrshire  38
North Lanarkshire  155
Orkney Islands  4
Perth & Kinross  29
Renfrewshire  62
Scottish Borders  14
Shetland Islands  7
South Ayrshire  47
South Lanarkshire  120
Stirling  38
West Dunbartonshire 42
West Lothian  91

2. Probationers are placed in one of their five local authority choices.

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