Primary Education: Barnsley
(asked on 25th January 2019) - View Source
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many (a) teaching assistants and (b) specialist support staff have been employed in primary schools in Barnsley in each year since 2010.
The following table provides the full-time equivalent number[1] of teaching assistants[2], support staff[3] and auxiliary staff[3] in service in state funded nursery/primary and secondary schools in Barnsley local authority and England in each November, 2010 to 2017.
| Teaching Assistants | Other Support Staff | Auxiliary Staff | |||
| Barnsley | England | Barnsley | England | Barnsley | England |
Primary | ||||||
2011 | 670 | 136,900 | 236 | 49,700 | 165 | 40,100 |
2012 | 762 | 146,700 | 264 | 52,200 | 178 | 41,300 |
2013 | 840 | 156,200 | 285 | 54,600 | 185 | 42,200 |
2014 | 858 | 166,200 | 296 | 56,900 | 201 | 44,400 |
2015 | 894 | 174,500 | 296 | 59,400 | 195 | 45,700 |
2016 | 897 | 177,700 | 297 | 60,500 | 192 | 45,500 |
2017 | 890 | 176,200 | 287 | 60,600 | 188 | 45,500 |
Secondary | ||||||
2011 | 287 | 52,800 | 273 | 71,700 | 98 | 25,600 |
2012 | 267 | 54,100 | 227 | 73,300 | 89 | 26,600 |
2013 | 264 | 54,400 | 228 | 75,100 | 88 | 26,400 |
2014 | 224 | 53,900 | 213 | 75,500 | 87 | 26,900 |
2015 | 218 | 52,300 | 196 | 74,800 | 98 | 26,400 |
2016 | 221 | 50,100 | 208 | 73,900 | 89 | 25,700 |
2017 | 202 | 47,800 | 207 | 72,000 | 76 | 25,100 |
Source: School Workforce Census
[1] Raw figures are provided for Barnsley local authority, figures for England are rounded to the nearest 100 staff.
[2] Figures for teaching assistants in November 2010 is not available due to approximately 15% having missing 'hours worked' data.
[3] The actual hours worked which are used to calculate the full time equivalent of support staff and auxiliary staff was not collected in November 2010 School Workforce Census.