The recent HM Chief Inspectorof Prisons and HM Inspectorate of Education reports are addressed to the Home Office.Home Office ministers are discussing with the Scottish Executive how the recommendationscan be taken forward.

We have recently issued in theautumn of last year to all teachers and schools, guidance on the Professional Reviewand Development process. This document, that was prepared in collaboration withlocal authorities and other key stakeholders, describes the types of professionaldevelopment opportunities that teachers should expect to be exposed to throughouttheir career. It provides an exemplar framework in which to place such opportunitieswhich schools and teachers should consider and which reflects on what developmentactivities are appropriate at different stages in a teacher’s career. The ProfessionalReview and Development document is one of the elements that come together to makethe National Framework for Continuing Professional Development (CPD) of teachers.In addition to the guidance prepared with our partners, the Executive has distributed£13.45 million in 2002-03 and £14 million in 2003-04 for CPD to local authorities.

I refer the member to the answergiven to question S2W-2655 today, which is available on the Parliament’s website,the search facility for which can be found at http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/search_wa.

The information requested isgiven on pages 75 to 98 of Scottish Refugee Integration Forum, Draft SupportingDocument published by Astron in 2002, a copy of which is available in the Parliament’sReference Centre (Bib. number 24663).

Scottish Executive ministers have raised with Home Office ministers theimportance of engaging Scotland’s school inspectors in the inspection ofeducation provision and standards at Dungavel House Immigration Removal Centre,and are in discussion with Home Office ministers on how the recommendations inthe recent HM Chief Inspector of Prisons and HM Inspectorate of Educationreports can be taken forward.

Such matters would be considered,as appropriate, within the context of our discussions with the Home Office aboutthe recommendations in the recent reports by HM Chief Inspector of Prisons and HMInspectorate of Education.

Such matters would be considered,as appropriate, within the context of our discussions with the Home Office aboutthe recommendations in the recent reports by HM Chief Inspector of Prisons and HMInspectorate of Education.

None. Probationer teachers havealways required support and mentoring, and this has traditionally been a responsibilityof all teachers. Since the introduction of the teacher induction scheme, with itsmore formalised mentoring regime, the Executive has made additional funding availableto local authorities towards the cost of mentoring. Local authorities receive 10per cent of a probationer teacher’s salary for each probationer they employ specificallyto contribute to mentoring costs.

The following table gives thehistoric information requested. The teacher workforce planning exercise which iscarried out annually does not include projections of specific grades of teacher.

Number of PrincipalTeachers (Headcount) by Local Authority

	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002
Scotland	7,140	7,198	7,182	7,221	7,162
Aberdeen City	310	310	304	304	292
Aberdeenshire	388	392	387	398	404
Angus	168	165	166	166	165
Argyll and Bute	137	139	139	137	140
Clackmannanshire	66	66	66	68	63
Dumfries and Galloway	271	266	266	264	256
Dundee City	216	216	222	218	217
East Ayrshire	175	171	171	170	166
East Dunbartonshire	179	181	180	178	180
East Lothian	113	113	115	120	121
East Renfrewshire	138	139	139	140	139
Edinburgh, City of	450	448	450	462	469
Eilean Siar	47	47	50	50	47
Falkirk	174	173	174	172	172
Fife	422	440	446	456	453
Glasgow City	638	664	667	662	639
Highland	347	345	351	350	346
Inverclyde	146	144	140	144	141
Midlothian	122	127	125	127	121
Moray	181	180	180	183	182
North Ayrshire	192	195	177	194	197
North Lanarkshire	502	507	499	498	502
Orkney Islands	36	35	35	36	39
Perth and Kinross	180	181	182	179	179
Renfrewshire	253	255	256	253	238
Scottish Borders	167	169	172	173	170
Shetland Islands	37	35	36	36	37
South Ayrshire	175	177	175	175	174
South Lanarkshire	408	412	406	409	407
Stirling	138	135	135	133	130
West Dunbartonshire	138	147	146	139	148
West Lothian	226	224	225	227	228

Source:  annual school censuses.

This is a matter for local authorities.