FOI Request - Pupil Ratio

Request 101003244809

I am requesting the following information under freedom of information legislation:

1. In the current academic year (2022-2023) in your local authorities primary and secondary schools: the school counsellor – pupil ratio.

*By this I am looking for the ratio of school counsellors to pupils. I.e how many school counsellor’s there are to the number of pupils.

2. In the academic year 2021-2022 in your local authorities primary and secondary schools: the school counsellor – pupil ratio.

3. In the academic year 2020-2021 in your local authorities primary and secondary schools: the school counsellor – pupil ratio.

4. In the academic year 2019-2020 in your local authorities primary and secondary schools: the school counsellor – pupil ratio.

5. In the academic year 2018-2019 in your local authorities primary and secondary schools: the school counsellor – pupil ratio.

Response 13-03-2023

Please see attached the response from The Exchange, our counselling in schools service, commissioned from April 2021. This covers the following periods/points:

1. Academic Year 2022-2023
2. Academic Year 2021-2022
3. Academic Year 2020-2021

Prior to our commissioned service we had a counsellor provided through Moray SEBN Service as below for the following periods/points:

4. Academic Year 2019-2020 - NIL - information not available. Information that is not held falls under Section 17 of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 - Information not held. 

5. Academic Year 2018-2019 - NIL - information not available. Information that is not held falls under Section 17 of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 - Information not held.