Teachers: Vacancies
(asked on 19th May 2016) - View Source
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what information her Department holds on trends in the number of vacancies for teachers in secondary schools in (a) Calderdale, (b) West Yorkshire and (c) England since 2005.
The following table provides the number of vacancies for full-time teaching posts in state-funded secondary schools in (a) Calderdale local authority and (b) West Yorkshire and (c) England in November 2010 to 2014. Vacancy data is not available on a comparable basis prior to 2010. November 2015 data will be available at the end of June 2016.
| 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | |||||
| Number | Rate | Number | Rate | Number | Rate | Number | Rate | Number | Rate |
Calderdale | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 1 | 0.1 | 1 | 0.2 | 4 | 0.6 |
West Yorkshire | 15 | 0.2 | 14 | 0.2 | 11 | 0.1 | 12 | 0.2 | 25 | 0.3 |
Source: School Workforce Census
Published national figures for the full time series is available from Table 14 in the statistical first release ‘School Workforce in England’, November 2014 available at the following web link: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/school-workforce-in-england-november-2014