Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of the number of publicly employed educational psychologists who will retire in the next five years.

The estimated number of educational psychologists who will retire in the next five years is outlined in table 1. This is based on the number of educational psychologists registered to work in England, collated by the Health and Care Professions Council[1]. The data is for the workforce as a whole and does not distinguish between where educational psychologists are working.

Table 1 The estimated number of educational psychologists who will retire and the number of newly qualified who will enter the profession, in the next five years.

Source: Health and Care Professions Council (2015) and NCTL (2016)

[1] Health and Care professions Council www.hcpc-uk.co.uk

[2] This may increase to 132 depending on the number of deferral / maternity leave trainee who re-join the course in year three.