Schools: Sick Leave
Commons · Question 30747 · Tabled 11 Feb 2025 · Department for Education · Official record
Answered 19 Feb 2025
Question
Asked by Daisy Cooper
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an estimate of the number of sick days taken by (a) teachers and (b) other school staff due to mental ill health in each of the last five years.
Answer
Answered by Catherine McKinnell, 19 Feb 2025
The information requested is not held centrally.The department collects absence data for teachers and teaching assistants employed directly by state-funded schools via the school workforce census. This includes absences due to sickness but does not includ...