Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what information her Department holds relating to teaching assistants and other school support staff on trends in (a) teacher recruitment and retention, (b) performance and effectiveness, (c) days lost due to sickness, (d) skills attained and (e) employment on term-time-only contracts.
The number and characteristics of teaching assistants and school support staff employed in state-funded schools in England is published in the annual series of statistical first releases ‘School Workforce in England’. The latest available information, as at November 2015, is in tables 1, 2b, 3b and 6 at the following link:
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/school-workforce-in-england-november-2015
Information is not collected centrally for teaching assistants and school support staff on the following: recruitment and retention, performance and effectiveness, days lost due to sickness, skills attained, and term-time only contracts.