PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Teachers: Vacancies (19 January 2016)
Question Asked
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate her Department has made of the number of teaching vacancies at the start of September 2016.
Asked by:
Sir Nicholas Dakin (Labour)
Asked by:
Sir Nicholas Dakin (Labour)
Answer
The department collects the number of teacher vacancies in November each year. The November 2015 collection is still underway as schools, Local Authorities and Academy Trusts have until the end of January 2016 to provide their workforce data.
The latest available data on the number of vacancies in schools is from the November 2014 School Workforce Census which was published in July 2015 and is available from table 14 at the following web link: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/school-workforce-in-england-november-2014
The published data shows that 0.3% of teaching posts in state funded schools in England were vacant in November 2014.
Answered by:
Nick Gibb (Conservative)
22 January 2016
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