Teachers: Absenteeism

(asked on 26th June 2019) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether his Department holds data on teacher sickness absence in primary schools in England in each school week.


Answered by
Nick Gibb Portrait
Nick Gibb
This question was answered on 1st July 2019

The information requested is not available in the format requested.

Information on the number and rates of teacher sickness absence is published in the ‘School Workforce in England’ statistical publication at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-school-workforce.

Table 16 provides a national time series and there are also regional, local authority and school level tables.

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