Publication - FOI/EIR release

Number of Refugee children in school: FOI release

Published: 15 December 2022
Directorate: Learning Directorate
Topic: Education, Public sector
FOI reference: FOI/202200325006
Date received: 14 October 2022
Date responded: 25 October 2022

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

Information requested

The number of refugee and asylum seeking children are registered in Scottish schools at present.

Response

Information on the number of refugee and asylum seeking children in publicly funded schools in Scotland is requested as a part of the annual school census. However, the information collected is known to be incomplete and could be misleading.

The most recent data available is for the September 2021 pupil census which shows that in publicly funded schools in Scotland there were 1,860 children reported as being an asylum seeker and 3,502 children reported as being a refugee.

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Contact

Please quote the FOI reference
Central Enquiry Unit
Email: ceu@gov.scot
Phone: 0300 244 4000

The Scottish Government
St Andrews House
Regent Road
Edinburgh
EH1 3DG

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