Asked by: Imran Hussain (Labour - Bradford East)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many teachers by subject left employment in (a) Bradford, (b) Yorkshire and the Humber and (c) England in each year from 2008.
Answered by Nick Gibb
The information requested is not available.
Information, for 2011 to 2015, is available showing the percentage of teachers leaving service from state funded primary and separately for state funded secondary by region in England. This information is contained in section 2 of the ‘Local analysis of teacher workforce: 2010 to 2015’ statistical release available at the following web link:
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/local-analysis-of-teacher-workforce-2010-to-2015.
Information, for 2011 and 2015, is also available showing the percentage of teachers leaving service by subject from state funded secondary in England. This information is contained in table 2.1 of the ‘Teachers Analysis Compendium 2017’ statistical release available at the following web link:
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/teachers-analysis-compendium-2017.
Statistics on the number of teachers leaving by subject are not available.
Asked by: Imran Hussain (Labour - Bradford East)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department collects and publishes figures on the number of vacant positions at (a) local authority and (b) regional level.
Answered by Nick Gibb
As part of the annual School Workforce Census, the Department collects the number of full time teaching posts that have been advertised and are still vacant on census day. This information is supplied by schools and is published for each school, local authority and region. This information is available from 2010 to 2016 and the latest information was published on 22 June 2017 in the underlying data file of the ‘School Workforce in England: November 2016’ statistical release, available at the following web link:
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/school-workforce-in-england-november-2016
Asked by: Imran Hussain (Labour - Bradford East)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many teachers by subject were employed in (a) Bradford, (b) Yorkshire and the Humber and (c) England in each year from 2008.
Answered by Nick Gibb
The information is not available in the format requested.
The latest statistics on the number of teachers in state funded secondary schools in England teaching each subject is in Table 11 of the ‘School Workforce in England: November 2016’ statistical release which was published on 22 June 2017 and is available at the following web link:
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/school-workforce-in-england-november-2016
The statistics published are for England only and are estimates based on a large sample of secondary school teachers. Local authority and regional data are not available. Statistics on the number of teachers teaching each subject in primary schools are not collected by the Department.
Asked by: Imran Hussain (Labour - Bradford East)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she made an assessment of the potential merits of providing additional funding to schools with high teacher vacancy rates for teacher salaries.
Answered by Nick Gibb
From 2017, we have committed to introduce a national funding formula so that we can allocate funding more fairly, based on the needs of schools and the characteristics of their pupils. That will mean schools are better placed to manage their budgets and make informed decisions about their spending. Our pay reforms have given schools greater flexibility to determine teachers’ pay and to decide what salary to offer to new teachers on appointment. This increased flexibility helps schools to attract and recruit the teachers they need.
Asked by: Imran Hussain (Labour - Bradford East)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how her Department collects the vacancy rates of individual (a) maintained schools and (b) academies.
Answered by Nick Gibb
The number of full-time vacant teaching posts in state funded schools (both maintained schools and academy schools) in England is available at the following link:
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/school-workforce-in-england-november-2014
The information is provided by schools as part of the annual School Workforce Census which is carried out in November each year. As part of this census, all state funded schools (maintained schools and academies) in England provide to the Department the number of vacant teaching posts that exist in November. The data is published in the following June.
The following vacant posts, for all grades of teacher (classroom teacher to head teacher), should be reported by the school:
Posts that are either vacant or are filled by a teacher on a contract of less than a term’s duration,
Vacancies that the school has tried to fill but which were not filled on the November census day,
Vacancies where an appointment has been made but the appointee was not in post on the census day.
The following are excluded:
Vacancies that did not become vacant until after the census day, for example, where a teacher has resigned but is serving notice.
The vacancy rate is then calculated as the ratio of the number of vacant posts to the number of teaching posts.
Asked by: Imran Hussain (Labour - Bradford East)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the implications for her Department's policies on training teachers of the findings of the National Audit Office report, Training new teachers, published in February 2016.
Answered by Nick Gibb
We are considering the findings of the National Audit Office report on training new teachers. The Permanent Secretary and Sinead O’Sullivan, Director of Programme Delivery in the National College for Teaching and Leadership, will be appearing as witnesses before a Public Accounts Committee hearing on the report on Monday 7 March 2016. This will be an opportunity to discuss the content of the report.
Asked by: Imran Hussain (Labour - Bradford East)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the implications for her policies of the findings of the study funded by the Education Endowment Foundation into the effect on primary schools pupils' ability in mathematics and literacy of weekly philosophy classes.
Answered by Nick Gibb
We support the work of the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) in helping schools to use more evidence-based approaches and to put what works into practice. Research from the EEF has already revealed much about how schools can spend their budgets, and particularly their pupil premium allocations, more strategically to improve outcomes for pupils. There is evidence that Philosophy for Children had a positive impact on key stage 2 attainment in reading and mathematics. We trust individual headteachers to develop a school curriculum that will best help their pupils succeed, drawing on the best evidence available.