Headteachers: Retirement
(asked on 6th November 2014) - View Source
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many headteachers retired in (a) 2009-10, (b) 2010-11, (c) 2011-12, (d) 2012-13 and (e) 2013-14.
The requested information is not available broken down by the individual grades within the leadership group.
The following table provides the number of leadership teachers who retired from publicly-funded schools in England by the end of March in the financial years 2009-10, 2010-11, 2011-12 and 2012-13. Information for 2013-14 is not yet available.
Leadership Retirements[1] | |
2009-10[2] | 3,280 |
2010-11 | 4,010 |
2011-12[3] | 3,860 |
2012-13[3] | 3,000 |
Source: Database of Teacher Records and Pensioner Statistical System (PENSTATS).
Figures are rounded to the nearest 10 teachers.
[1] Includes retirements such as Premature, Actuarially Reduced Benefits, Age, and Ill Health of head teachers, deputy heads and assistant heads.
[2] Local authority maintained schools.
[3] Provisional estimates.