Teachers: East Midlands

(asked on 17th July 2023) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an estimate of the number of teachers that left the profession in the East Midlands in each academic year since 2019-20.


Answered by
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Nick Gibb
This question was answered on 25th July 2023

Recent data shows that there are now over 468,000 full time equivalent (FTE) in state funded schools in England, which is an increase of 27,000 (6%) since 2010. This makes the highest number of FTE teachers since the School Workforce Census began in 2010.

Information on the school workforce in England, including the number and characteristics (age, gender, ethnicity, working pattern and post) of teachers joining and leaving service nationally, is published in the ‘School Workforce in England’ statistical publication, available at: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/school-workforce-in-england. Information for entrants by age, type and academic year is available at: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-tables/permalink/295abd8b-e85d-478f-1bad-08db839d58e2.

The table attached provides the latest data for academic years 2010/11 to 2021/22 of the FTE number of qualified teachers leaving and the leaving rate, from state funded school, by region. For consistency with previously provided information, entrants numbers and rates have also been provided. Figures for 2022/23 leavers are not available yet as they will be identified by their absence from the November 2023 census.

Leavers are defined as qualified teachers leaving the state funded sector in England, for example due to a change of career or joining other UK education sectors, and those leaving on career breaks such as maternity leave or secondments outside of the school sector. Some of these teachers may rejoin a state funded school in England at a later date.

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