Non-teaching Staff

(asked on 23rd November 2021) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate his Department has made of the number of (a) teaching assistants and (b) other educational focused support staff employed in schools in England in the latest period for which figures are available.


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Robin Walker Portrait
Robin Walker
This question was answered on 26th November 2021

Information on the number of staff, including teaching assistants and other support staff, employed in state-funded schools in England is published in the ‘School Workforce in England’ statistical publication at: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/school-workforce-in-england.

In 2020/21, the full-time equivalent of 271,370 people were working as teaching assistants in state-funded schools in England. This figure is 49,889 (equivalent to 22.5%) higher than in 2011/12.

'Teaching Assistants' comprises those support staff based in the classroom for learning and pupil support, for example higher level teaching assistants, teaching assistants, special needs support staff, nursery officers/assistants, minority ethnic pupils support staff and bilingual support assistants.

Special support assistants are included in the teaching assistant totals and special educational needs coordinator assistants are included in the administrative staff totals.

Information on the number of school-based support staff trained to aid children with special educational needs and disabilities is not collected centrally.

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