Teachers: Vacancies

(asked on 19th January 2016) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what records her Department keeps of the number of unfilled teaching positions at secondary schools (a) nationally and (b) in each local authority area.


Answered by
Nick Gibb Portrait
Nick Gibb
This question was answered on 22nd January 2016

The number of vacancies in each primary and secondary school is collected as part of the annual November School Workforce Census. The latest national and local authority level statistics were published in July 2015 and are located at the following web link: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/school-workforce-in-england-november-2014

As part of the School Workforce Census collection each state funded school is asked to provide details of the teacher vacancies they have on Census day. Under the Department’s long-standing standard definition, a post is vacant if it is unfilled or temporarily-filled by a teacher on a contract of less than one term. The vacancy must have been advertised, be vacant at the time of the Census and there should still be an intention to fill it.

The complete guidance on how schools provide School Workforce Census data (including the vacancy data) is available at the following web link: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/school-workforce-census

The published data shows that 0.3% of teaching posts in state funded schools in England were vacant in November 2014.


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