Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many (a) specialist support teaching assistants and (b) teachers of sensory impairment with a full mandatory qualification in sensory impairment are employed in (i) England, (ii) Derbyshire County Council area and (iii) Derby City Council area; and what information on these roles is collected as part of the annual School Workforce Census.

Information on the school workforce in England is collected as part of the annual School Workforce Census each November and published in the ‘School workforce in England’ statistical publication, which is available here: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/school-workforce-in-england.

Information on staff roles is collected in the annual census. The role categories collected do not identify specialist support teaching assistants or teachers of sensory impairment.