Classroom Assistants: Oldham

(asked on 19th July 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many teaching assistants were in post in Oldham schools in each of the last five years.


Answered by
Nick Gibb Portrait
Nick Gibb
This question was answered on 6th September 2017

The following table provides the full time equivalent number[1] of teaching assistants in service in state funded schools in Oldham local authority and England in November each year between 2012 and 2016.

Oldham

England

2012

1,500

232,300

2013

1,500

243,700

2014[2]

1,600

255,100

2015[3]

1,300

263,000

2016[4]

1,600

265,600

Source: School Workforce Census

[1] Numbers are rounded to the nearest 100 teaching assistants.

[2] Excludes figures for one school in Oldham local authority that did not supply teaching assistant data in 2014.

[3] Excludes figures for five schools in Oldham local authority that did not supply teaching assistant data in 2015.

[4] Excludes figures for two schools in Oldham local authority that did not supply teaching assistant data in 2016.

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