Teachers: Ellesmere Port and Neston

(asked on 9th July 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what information his Department holds on how many and what proportion of teachers in Ellesmere Port and Neston constituency have remained in the teaching profession (a) one, (b) two, (c) three, (d) four and (e) five years after their initial qualification.


Answered by
Nick Gibb Portrait
Nick Gibb
This question was answered on 17th July 2018

Information on the retention of teachers in all state funded schools in England for the years up to November 2017 is available in Table 8 of the publication, ‘School Workforce in England, November 2017’ available at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/school-workforce-in-england-november-2017.

This shows that after (a) one, (b) two, (c) three, (d) four, and (e) five years the retention rates of qualified teachers nationally are (a) 85%, (b) 78%, (c) 73%, (d) 70% and (e) 67%. Information at constituency level is not available.

The Department is aware that there are differences on teacher recruitment and retention at a sub-national level and has been doing more work to understand this. While information at sub national levels for 2016 and 2017 is not available, information is available on the number of qualified teachers entering and leaving the profession in English regions for the years 2010 to 2015. It is published as part of the statistical release, ‘Local analysis of Teacher Workforce: 2010 to 2015’: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/local-analysis-of-teacher-workforce-2010-to-2015. Tables 2.1a (secondary) and 2.1b (primary) show the wastage rates, by region in state funded schools for the years 2011 to 2015. Information for entrants is shown in Table 2.3a (secondary) and Table 2.3b (primary) of this publication. Comparable information at constituency level is not available.

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