Question to the Department for Education:

To ask His Majesty's Government what was the level of staff turnover for (1) teaching, and (2) non-teaching, staff in (a) 2021–22, and (b)2022–23, for (i) state-funded primary schools, (ii) state-funded secondary schools, including academies, (iii) sixth-form colleges, and (iv) further education colleges.

Information on the numbers and rates of qualified teachers entering and leaving state-funded schools in England is published in the ‘School Workforce in England’ statistical publication, available at: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/school-workforce-in-england.

In state-funded schools in England, between November 2022 and November 2023, the latest two years of data available, the rate of qualified teachers entering service was 9.1% in nursery and primary schools and 10.0% in secondary schools. This is published as 2023/24 entrants here alongside figures for the previous year, and is attached in the table titled ‘HL472_Qualified entrants to teaching_2022-23 and 2023-24’. The data is also available here: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-tables/permalink/518037fe-b4d2-4fd6-baa3-08dcafcfd634.

The equivalent rate of qualified teachers leaving state-funded schools between November 2022 and November 2023, the latest two years of data available, was 9.5% in nursery and primary schools and 9.5% in secondary schools. This is published as 2022/23 leavers here alongside figures for the previous year, and is attached in the table titled ‘HL472_Qualified leavers from teaching_2021-22 and 2022-23'. The data is also available here: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-tables/permalink/27af8b92-fa97-4081-baa4-08dcafcfd634.

Turnover figures for non-teaching staff in schools are not centrally calculated and would incur disproportionate cost to compile.

Staff turnover figures for both teaching and non-teaching staff in sixth-form colleges and further education colleges are not centrally collected.