Classroom Assistants
(asked on 22nd May 2019) - View Source
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate he has made of the number of teaching assistants in schools; and if he will make a statement.
This question was answered on 5th June 2019
The following table provides the full-time equivalent (FTE) number of teaching assistants in service in state funded schools in England, in each year since November 2010. This information can be found in the School Workforce Census, available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/school-workforce-in-england-november-2017.
| FTE teaching assistants |
2010 | 213,900 |
2011 | 219,800 |
2012 | 232,300 |
2013 | 243,700 |
2014 | 255,100 |
2015 | 263,000 |
2016 | 265,600 |
2017 | 262,800 |