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Supply Teachers: Resignations

Commons · Question 56978 · Tabled 3 Jun 2025 · Department for Education · Official record

Answered 11 Jun 2025

Question

Asked by Martin Wrigley

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department (a) collects and (b) plans to collect data on the number of supply teachers leaving the profession annually.

Answer

Answered by Catherine McKinnell, 11 Jun 2025

The school workforce census does not identify supply teachers in England. However, teachers who are not directly employed by the school or local authority and who are in school on census day (early November each year) with a contract or service agreement ...