Teachers
(asked on 29th June 2017) - View Source
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of the schools budget has been spent on teaching staff in each of the last seven years.
Academies and local authority maintained schools report expenditure on a different basis: maintained schools on a financial year basis (April to March) and academy schools on an academic year basis (September to August). Data is gathered through two different collections and published through two different statistical first releases. The tables below summarise expenditure on teaching staff as a percentage of the whole.
Local Authority and maintained schools
| 2009-10 | 2010-11 | 2011-12 | 2012-13 | 2013-14 | 2014-15 | 2015-16 |
Teaching staff expenditure as a proportion of total expenditure | 53% | 53% | 51% | 50% | 48% | 46% | 46% |
Education Support Staff expenditure as a proportion of total expenditure | 14% | 14% | 15% | 16% | 16% | 17% | 17% |
Non-Teaching staff expenditure as a proportion of total expenditure | 10% | 9% | 9% | 9% | 9% | 9% | 9% |
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-local-authority-school-finance-data
Academies
| 2011 / 12 | 2012 / 13 | 2013 / 14 | 2014 / 15 |
Teaching staff expenditure as a proportion of total expenditure | 53% | 50% | 49% | 49% |
Education Support Staff expenditure as a proportion of total expenditure | 11% | 11% | 12% | 12% |
Non Teaching staff expenditure as a proportion of total expenditure | 13% | 11% | 11% | 11% |
The Government will continue to work to ensure that every child has the opportunity to attend a good school and that all schools are fairly funded. To help schools make the best use of their funding, the Department has published practical guidance and tools on workforce planning, financial management, benchmarking, and buying for schools which can be found here:
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/schools-financial-health-and-efficiency.
Among these, the School Workforce Planning Guidance supports schools in reviewing their staff structures and recommends that schools plan their staffing over three to five years and, in doing so, ensure their teaching staff are being deployed in the most effective and efficient way. This guidance can be found here:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/school-workforce-planning.