To ask the Scottish Executive how many careers advisers have been employed in secondary schools in each year since 1999, broken down by local authority area and shown also per head of pupil population.
Careers advisers are not employedby secondary schools, but are deployed there on an equitable basis dependent onschool population size. Each school is allocated 58 days per annum careers advisertime per 1,000 pupils and this is negotiated and agreed with each school througha Partnership Agreement. In addition, each local authority can identify up to 30%of schools in their area whose pupils need most help in making an effective transitionon leaving school. These schools receive an additional time allocation from CareersScotland.
The following table providesdetails of the numbers of careers advisers, in recent years, operating within eachCareers Scotland Local Advisory Board area, and how they reflect local authorityareas. However, these careers advisers also provide services to unemployed youngpeople, college students and adults as well as to the school pupils.
The table also provides detailsof the total number of secondary school pupils (S1-S6) in each Careers ScotlandLocal Advisory Board area, based on the September 2005 School Census. The numberof pupils per careers adviser has then been calculated using the comparable (January2006) data. However the recent increase in number of careers advisers in 2007 willhave decreased the number of pupils per adviser in most areas, since the data shownfor the School year 2005-06.
| No. of Careers Advisers (Full-Time Equivalent) | Secondary School Population September 2005* | Average No. of Pupils Per Careers Adviser - School Year 2005-06 |
January 2005 | January 2006 | January 2007 |
Fife | 26.5 | 29.5 | 31.5 | 22,213 | 753 |
Grampian | 22 | 30.5 | 30 | 26,211 | 859 |
Tayside | 30 | 32 | 35 | 23,332 | 729 |
Borders | 7.5 | 10.5 | 10.5 | 6,971 | 664 |
Edinburgh and Lothians | 48.5 | 61.5 | 61 | 42,250 | 687 |
Forth Valley | 15.5 | 22 | 24.5 | 18,183 | 827 |
Ayrshire | 29 | 30 | 34 | 24,692 | 823 |
Dumfries and Galloway | 10 | 10 | 11 | 9,581 | 958 |
Lanarkshire | 51.5 | 59 | 61.5 | 42,293 | 717 |
Dunbartonshire | 12.5 | 15 | 19 | 14,603 | 974 |
Glasgow area | 39 | 47 | 70.5 | 28,499 | 606 |
Renfrewshire | 35 | 37 | 40.5 | 24,656 | 666 |
Totals | 327 | 384 | 429 | 283,484 | |
Note: *Secondary School Rollsby Stage – September 2005 School Census (S1-S6).
Careers advisers operate withinmultidisciplinary teams. Schools additionally get support from other Careers Scotlandstaff including specialist programmes to help prevent pupils becoming NEET (notin education, employment or training) and a range of World of Work experiences andenterprise activities within the delivery of a consistent, coherent and progressivecareer education programme.