Current status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 11 March 2025
To ask the Scottish Government how many (a) primary, (b) secondary and (c) special school nurses there have been in each year since 1999, broken down by local authority.
Data on school nurses by sector and local authority is available from 2019 to 2023, here:
https://www.gov.scot/publications/school-support-staff-management-information/
from 2017 to 2018, here:
https://www.gov.scot/publications/school-support-staff-statistics/
and from 2010 to 2016, here:
https://www.gov.scot/publications/teacher-census-supplementary-statistics/
Data prior to 2010 is not available.
Data for 2024 will be released on 25 March 2025.