Standards in Scotland's Schools etc. Act 2000 statutory guidance: consultation analysis report

3. Consultation Responses And Approach To Analysis

Written responses

3.1 The consultation was issued directly to local authority Chief Executives, Directors of Education and Heads of Service as well as Headteachers. The consultation was made available for online completion as well as being published on the Scottish Government website for electronic download.

3.2 Annex A sets out a list of organisational respondents to the consultation document. The names of seven individual respondents have not been included as they wished for their responses to remain anonymous. Five responses were received where the respondents requested that theirs were not to be published. The consultation responses of those who gave permission for their response to be made public are available at the following link: https://consult.scotland.gov.uk/strategy-and-performance-unit/statutory-guidance/consultation/published_select_respondent

Response rate

3.3 A total of 43 responses were received in response to the consultation document. As outlined in Table 1 below, local authorities represented the largest respondent group at 15.

Table 1: Number of responses by respondent group

Approach to Analysis

3.4 The Scottish Government has undertaken a quantitative analysis of response rates to each of the nine questions asked, the results of which are set out below. Responses to questions by respondents were assigned to one of three categories: agree, disagree or no firm view expressed. A qualitative analysis was also undertaken by the Scottish Government, with key themes and specific points outlined in the analysis and key findings section.