Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he is taking to ensure the adequacy of staffing levels at schools while the covid-19 restrictions are in place.
We are monitoring staffing levels in schools through our daily schools census, and have published guidance to support schools to maintain adequate staffing levels and deploy staff whilst COVID-19 restrictions are in place. This guidance is available here:
National data on staffing levels in educational establishments since 23 March is published weekly and at the time of responding, it covers data up to 18 June. The latest data is available here: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/attendance-in-education-and-early-years-settings-during-the-coronavirus-covid-19-outbreak/2020-week-25.
The data is collected from individual education establishments and the published figures include estimates for non-response.?