Classroom Assistants: West Yorkshire
(asked on 11th March 2019) - View Source
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many teaching assistants have been employed in primary schools in West Yorkshire in each year since 2010.
The following table provides the full-time equivalent (FTE) number of teaching assistants in state funded nursery and primary schools in West Yorkshire and England in each November, from 2011 to 2017.
| West Yorkshire | England |
2011[1] | 7,439 | 136,876 |
2012[2] | 7,725 | 146,660 |
2013[3] | 8,237 | 156,238 |
2014 | 8,399 | 166,230 |
2015[4] | 9,043 | 174,533 |
2016[5] | 9,125 | 177,692 |
2017 | 8,972 | 176,242 |
Source: School Workforce Census
West Yorkshire includes Bradford, Calderdale, Kirklees, Leeds and Wakefield local authorities. Comparable information for 2010 is not available.
[1] 2011 figures for West Yorkshire exclude 14 out of 735 nursery and primary schools that did not provide a return for teaching assistant numbers.
[2] 2012 figures for West Yorkshire exclude 10 out of 734 nursery and primary schools that did not provide a return for teaching assistant numbers.
[3] 2013 figures for West Yorkshire exclude 5 out of 734 nursery and primary schools that did not provide a return for teaching assistant numbers.
[4] 2015 figures for West Yorkshire exclude 1 out of 729 nursery and primary schools that did not provide a return for teaching assistant numbers.
[5] 2016 figures for West Yorkshire exclude 5 out of 728 nursery and primary schools that did not provide a return for teaching assistant numbers.