Teachers: North West

(asked on 17th July 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many qualified teachers joined the state-funded sector in (a) St Helens and (b) the North West in each year since 2010.


Answered by
Nick Gibb Portrait
Nick Gibb
This question was answered on 23rd July 2018

Information on the number of entrants and leavers, plus leavers rates for qualified teachers in all state funded schools in England for the years up to November 2017 is available in Table 7a (entrants) and Table 7b (leavers) of the publication, ‘School Workforce in England’, November 2017 available at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/school-workforce-in-england-november-2017.

The Government recognises that there are differences on teacher recruitment and retention at a sub-national level and the Department has been doing more work to understand this. Information at local authority or regional level comparable to the national figures for 2016 and 2017 is not yet available. However, information is available on the number of qualified teachers entering and leaving the profession by region for the years 2010 to 2015. It is published as part of the statistical release, Local analysis of Teacher Workforce: 2010 to 2015. Tables 2.1a (secondary) and 2.1b (primary) show the wastage rates, by region in state funded schools for the years 2011 to 2015. Information for entrants is shown in Table 2.3a (secondary) and Table 2.3b (primary) of this publication. Comparable information at local authority level is not available. This publication can be found at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/local-analysis-of-teacher-workforce-2010-to-2015.

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