In most areas offering places with five sessions a week, parents are free to take up fewer sessions, if that better meets their needs and those of the child.Information on local authority admissions policies is not collected centrally. The number of grant funded places for three-year-old children provided in each local authority by number of sessions per week is shown in the table.Number of Three-Year-Old Children in Grant Funded Pre-school Education - September 2000Local AuthorityNumber of 3 Year Old Children Receiving a Grant Funded PlaceNumber Receiving 5 Sessions per weekNumber Receiving 4 Sessions per weekNumber Receiving 3 Sessions per weekNumber Receiving 2 Sessions per weekNumber Receiving 1 Session per weekAberdeen City9908444510100Aberdeenshire1,202496185462590Angus5023602872393Argyll and Bute446436942292Clackmannanshire2882371225140Dumfries & Galloway74600675683Dundee City845796301351East Ayrshire5784522163411East Dunbartonshire6243123613112817East Lothian437383251973East Renfrewshire595476535691City of Edinburgh2,2181,9959287413Falkirk7206044635278Fife1,6541,383381527011City of Glasgow3,1602,95353702955Highland99746999344841Inverclyde43641391130Midlothian403379131100Moray540463581540North Ayrshire68853325114151North Lanarkshire1,762991464732502Orkney Islands1132309000Perth and Kinross5265240110Renfrewshire977936161960Scottish Borders578240341861171Shetland Islands11861113952South Ayrshire4973463286330South Lanarkshire1,3431,15552107281Stirling4673521349485West Dunbartonshire71670101140West Lothian77175161040Western Isles1117722471Total26,04819,7091,4693,5631,185122 S1W-12422