Asked by: Sarah Jones (Labour - Croydon Central)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many departmental staff are working on implementing the recommendations of the Timpson review of school exclusions; and which directorate is responsible for that work.
Answered by Nick Gibb
The Behaviour, Attendance, Exclusion and Alternative Provision Division of the Department for Education is the lead division taking forward the Government's programme of action on behaviour, exclusions and alternative provision.
As of September 2019, this division had 32 members of staff, and sits in the Strategy, Social Mobility & Disadvantage directorate.
The recommendations of the Timpson review of school exclusion are wide-ranging, and it is not possible to record how much time individual staff will spend working on them, as this work will be carried out in addition to other duties. Staff from across the Department will also contribute to the work on an ad hoc basis.
Asked by: Sarah Jones (Labour - Croydon Central)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what information the Government holds on schools’ ability to recruit and retain permanent teaching staff.
Answered by Nick Gibb
Information on the number of new entrants to teaching in state funded schools is available in Table 7a of the publication, School Workforce in England, 2017. This is available at the following link:
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/school-workforce-in-england-november-2017.
Information on the retention of newly qualified teachers is available in Table 8 of the above publication. Further information on the retention of newly qualified teachers, including the characteristics and type of teacher training and regional information, is available in the Teachers Analysis Compendium 4 available at the following link:
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/teachers-analysis-compendium-4.
In January 2019 the Department launched the Teacher Recruitment and Retention Strategy which outlines 4 key areas for reform and investment. These are creating the right climate for leaders to establish supportive school cultures, transforming support for early career teachers, building a career offer that remains attractive to teachers as their careers and lives develop, and making it easier for great people to become teachers.
Designed collaboratively with the sector, the centrepiece of the strategy is the Early Career Framework, which will underpin a fully-funded, two-year package of structured support for all early career teachers linked to the best available research evidence. The strategy can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/teacher-recruitment-and-retention-strategy.
Asked by: Sarah Jones (Labour - Croydon Central)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate he has made of the total number of (a) full-time teachers required for schools in England to all be fully staffed; and (b) full-time equivalent permanent teachers currently teaching in schools in England.
Answered by Nick Gibb
There are 451,870 full-time equivalent (FTE) teachers in service in state funded schools in England as of November 2017. Schools will always have some vacancies, temporarily filled vacancies or staff absences. They use occasional and other supply teachers to meet these demands. These teachers may not be fully reflected within FTE figures as these include only teachers who have a contract of over 28 days duration or, in the case of occasional teachers, are employed by the school on the day data is collected.
The Department collects details of teachers working in state funded schools through the annual School Workforce Census. The census does identify those teachers who are employed via a service agreement with an agency but not whether they are a supply teacher.
The following table provides the numbers and proportions of FTE teachers by their contract agreement type and the headcount number of occasional teachers in state funded schools in England for November 2013 to 2017:
| 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 |
CONTRACT TYPE[1] |
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Permanent | 404,124 | 407,397 | 409,801 | 411,943 | 409,878 |
Fixed term | 24,529 | 25,978 | 26,000 | 25,320 | 24,133 |
Temporary | 17,867 | 17,616 | 17,116 | 16,091 | 14,635 |
Service Agreement with an Agency | 2,465 | 3,226 | 3,286 | 3,194 | 2,751 |
Service Agreement with Local Authority | 335 | 343 | 245 | 254 | 161 |
Service Agreement with Other Source | 338 | 394 | 413 | 431 | 291 |
Unknown | 5 | 16 | 4 | 4 | 21 |
Total | 449,663 | 454,969 | 456,865 | 457,236 | 451,870 |
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Head count of occasional teachers[2] | 13,484 | 14,105 | 13,064 | 12,783 | 11,757 |
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PERCENTAGE |
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Permanent | 89.9 | 89.5 | 89.7 | 90.1 | 90.7 |
Fixed term | 5.5 | 5.7 | 5.7 | 5.5 | 5.3 |
Temporary | 4.0 | 3.9 | 3.7 | 3.5 | 3.2 |
Service Agreement with an Agency | 0.5 | 0.7 | 0.7 | 0.7 | 0.6 |
Service Agreement with a Local Authority | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.0 |
Service Agreement with another Source | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 |
Unknown | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
Total | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 |
Source: School Workforce Census
The Department uses the Teacher Supply Model to estimate national postgraduate Initial Teacher Training place requirements for primary and each secondary subject and as part of this, estimates the longer term future demand for teachers in English state-funded schools. The most recently published model is available at the following web link: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/tsm-and-initial-teacher-training-allocations-2019-to-2020
[1] Teachers are recorded for those who have a contract of a least 28 days duration who are in service on the date of the census in November each year.
[2] Occasional teachers are a headcount of teachers with a contract of less than 28 days who were in school on the census day in November.
Asked by: Sarah Jones (Labour - Croydon Central)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will publish the number of agency supply teachers used by schools in England for each of the last five years.
Answered by Nick Gibb
There are 451,870 full-time equivalent (FTE) teachers in service in state funded schools in England as of November 2017. Schools will always have some vacancies, temporarily filled vacancies or staff absences. They use occasional and other supply teachers to meet these demands. These teachers may not be fully reflected within FTE figures as these include only teachers who have a contract of over 28 days duration or, in the case of occasional teachers, are employed by the school on the day data is collected.
The Department collects details of teachers working in state funded schools through the annual School Workforce Census. The census does identify those teachers who are employed via a service agreement with an agency but not whether they are a supply teacher.
The following table provides the numbers and proportions of FTE teachers by their contract agreement type and the headcount number of occasional teachers in state funded schools in England for November 2013 to 2017:
| 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 |
CONTRACT TYPE[1] |
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Permanent | 404,124 | 407,397 | 409,801 | 411,943 | 409,878 |
Fixed term | 24,529 | 25,978 | 26,000 | 25,320 | 24,133 |
Temporary | 17,867 | 17,616 | 17,116 | 16,091 | 14,635 |
Service Agreement with an Agency | 2,465 | 3,226 | 3,286 | 3,194 | 2,751 |
Service Agreement with Local Authority | 335 | 343 | 245 | 254 | 161 |
Service Agreement with Other Source | 338 | 394 | 413 | 431 | 291 |
Unknown | 5 | 16 | 4 | 4 | 21 |
Total | 449,663 | 454,969 | 456,865 | 457,236 | 451,870 |
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Head count of occasional teachers[2] | 13,484 | 14,105 | 13,064 | 12,783 | 11,757 |
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PERCENTAGE |
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Permanent | 89.9 | 89.5 | 89.7 | 90.1 | 90.7 |
Fixed term | 5.5 | 5.7 | 5.7 | 5.5 | 5.3 |
Temporary | 4.0 | 3.9 | 3.7 | 3.5 | 3.2 |
Service Agreement with an Agency | 0.5 | 0.7 | 0.7 | 0.7 | 0.6 |
Service Agreement with a Local Authority | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.0 |
Service Agreement with another Source | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 |
Unknown | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
Total | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 |
Source: School Workforce Census
The Department uses the Teacher Supply Model to estimate national postgraduate Initial Teacher Training place requirements for primary and each secondary subject and as part of this, estimates the longer term future demand for teachers in English state-funded schools. The most recently published model is available at the following web link: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/tsm-and-initial-teacher-training-allocations-2019-to-2020
[1] Teachers are recorded for those who have a contract of a least 28 days duration who are in service on the date of the census in November each year.
[2] Occasional teachers are a headcount of teachers with a contract of less than 28 days who were in school on the census day in November.