Teaching Assistants: Temporary Employment
Commons · Question 41418 · Tabled 26 Mar 2025 · Department for Education · Official record
Answered 3 Apr 2025
Question
Asked by Jim Shannon
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of the number of teaching assistants who are on temporary contracts.
Answer
Answered by Catherine McKinnell, 3 Apr 2025
Education is a devolved matter, and as such the response below outlines the information for schools in England only.As of November 2023, the latest date for which data is available, there was a headcount of 395,585 teaching assistants (282,925 full-time e...