Supply Teachers

(asked on 7th November 2023) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much was spent on supply teachers in each (a) region, (b) local authority and (c) parliamentary constituency in the 2021-22 academic year.


Answered by
Robert Halfon Portrait
Robert Halfon
This question was answered on 15th November 2023

A key principle behind the Government's plan for education is to give teachers and school leaders the freedom to use their professional judgement to decide the structure of their schools’ workforce that best meets the needs of their pupils.

Financial information on Local Authority maintained schools, including spending on supply teachers, is collected in Consistent Financial Reporting returns. The information is published on the School Financial Benchmarking website and in the annual official statistic ‘LA and school expenditure’, available at: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/la-and-school-expenditure.

The spend on these categories for Local Authority maintained schools in each region for the 2021/22 financial year is available at: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-tables/permalink/22a37aed-9bf8-489a-4884-08dbdfb23d99. The spend on these categories for Local Authority maintained schools in each Local Authority for the 2021/22 financial year is available at: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-tables/permalink/beb72a02-b53a-41b2-4883-08dbdfb23d99. Information relating to individual schools is published on the School Financial Benchmarking website, available at: https://schools-financial-benchmarking.service.gov.uk/Help/DataSources.

School level information published on the Schools Financial Benchmarking website has been linked to information from the Get Information About Schools website to provide the attached constituency level information. This includes supply teaching staff, supply teacher insurance and agency supply staff expenditure, plus net expenditure which is expenditure offset against income on supply teacher insurance claims.

Information on the expenditure by academies is not published on the same basis as Local Authority maintained schools. Academy level data on expenditure is available on the Schools Financial website. Information at regional and Local Authority level is not published.

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