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(asked on 5th June 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many substitute teachers are registered for teaching in England and Wales.


Answered by
Nick Gibb Portrait
Nick Gibb
This question was answered on 13th June 2018

Data on the number of substitute teachers is not collected because the School Workforce Census does not show which teachers are replacing another teacher on a temporary basis.

The School Workforce Census collects the number of “occasional” teachers who are on a contract or service agreement with a school for less than a month and who are in school on the day of the census. There were 12,800 “occasional” teachers in service in state-funded schools in England in November 2016. This is the most recent month for which this information is available. November 2017 figures will be available on 28 June 2018.

The information provided is publicly available from table 3a in the Statistical First Release ‘School Workforce in England, November 2016’. This is available at the following weblink: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-school-workforce.

Information for Wales is a matter for the devolved administrations. This information is available at the following link: https://gov.wales/statistics-and-research/key-education-statistics/?lang=en.

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