Teachers: Absenteeism

(asked on 4th September 2023) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the most common reasons were for teachers' absence from school in each year since 2019.


Answered by
Nick Gibb Portrait
Nick Gibb
This question was answered on 12th September 2023

Information on the school workforce in England, including teacher absences due to sickness, 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.

The Department collects information on teacher absences from state funded schools via the School Workforce Census. The number of working days lost due to absence are collected for sickness absence and pregnancy related absences only.

More information on teacher absences is published in the ‘School Workforce in England’ statistical publication, accessible here: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-tables/permalink/f5ba72da-be42-4d81-d365-08db81e98ab0. Further granularity, such as the type of sickness absence, is not centrally collected. The requested figures for absences by subject taught are not available.

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