Teachers: Termination of Employment

(asked on 31st January 2023) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the reasons for teachers leaving that profession in the last (a) one, (b) two and (c) five years.


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Nick Gibb
This question was answered on 8th February 2023

Information on the number of teachers leaving state-funded schools in England, and their reason for leaving, is published in the ‘School Workforce in England’ statistical publication, available at: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-tables/permalink/ea6bb71b-3857-447a-2d4c-08dafaf734a0.

Based on the latest available data, 36,262 full time equivalent teachers left the state funded sector in 2020/21. This represents less than 1 in 10, or 8.1%, of all qualified teachers. This is up by 4,013 since 2019/20, but overall, the rate of teachers leaving the profession has decreased in the last five years from 10.6% in 2016/17, to 8.1% in 2020/21.

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