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Non-Teaching Staff

Volume 228: debated on Monday 12 July 1993

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To ask the Secretary of State for Education if he will provide for each local education authority the numbers of (a) non-teaching staff in schools and (b) non-teaching staff employed centrally, providing for each group a breakdown by job function into (i) education support staff, (ii) premises related, including school meals, caretakers and (iii) administration.

Information on the full-time equivalent numbers of education support and administrative staff employed in maintained schools in England in January 1992—the latest date for which information is available—is shown in the table. Information on premises-related staff in schools is not collected centrally.Similar information on centrally employed non-teaching staff is not collected by the Department, although tables showing the total numbers of teachers and lecturers and of other staff employed in the education service of each local authority have been placed in the Library.

Full-time equivalent1 numbers of education support staff and administrative staff in maintained nursery, primary, secondary and special schools in England
Position at January 1992
Local education authorityEducation support staffAdministrative staff
Corporation of London41
Camden284104
Greenwich428160
Hackney395119
Hammersmith24688
Islington33995
Kensington and Chelsea15866
Lambeth403129
Lewisham281118
Southwark406146
Tower Hamlets444152
Wandsworth590146
Westminster225111
Barking232102
Barnet423171
Bexley175118
Brent288142
Bromley193175
Croydon379207
Ealing481161
Enfield340135
Haringey426109
Harrow263117
Havering210160
Hillingdon407153
Hounslow331146
Kingston upon Thames134120
Merton153133
Newham439125
Redbridge196158
Richmond upon Thames12186
Sutton149127
Waltham Forest403179
Birmingham1,692572
Coventry499243
Dudley309166
Sandwell502217
Solihull270148
Walsall509195
Wolverhampton421157
Knowsley283134
Liverpool618289
St. Helens235106
Sefton295199
Wirral331173
Local education authorityEducation support staffAdministrative staff
Bolton316162
Bury22884
Manchester901289
Oldham369124
Rochdale269142
Salford402157
Stockport411184
Tameside357122
Trafford159112
Wigan322177
Barnsley334113
Doncaster329243
Rotherham342155
Sheffield692308
Bradford1,134380
Calderdale332114
Kirklees514237
Leeds1,232405
Wakefield430220
Gateshead217109
Newcastle upon Tyne426163
North Tyneside278123
South Tyneside16862
Sunderland425155
Isles of Scilly33
Avon1,332654
Bedfordshire781483
Berkshire980515
Buckinghamshire1,082460
Cambridgeshire1,271469
Cheshire1,258596
Cleveland772384
Cornwall752263
Cumbria601251
Derbyshire1,484487
Devon1,312640
Dorset608369
Durham832299
East Sussex712428
Essex1,5401,166
Gloucestershire609360
Hampshire2,1271,273
Hereford and Worcester538408
Hertfordshire1,468698
Humberside1,265570
Isle of Wight19398
Kent1,5671,017
Lancashire1,563838
Leicestershire1,290664
Lincolnshire757333
Norfolk804457
North Yorkshire656429
Northamptonshire751442
Northumberland338194
Nottinghamshire1,376579
Oxfordshire888363
Shropshire572281
Somerset755300
Staffordshire1,324698
Suffolk706434
Surrey972824
Warwickshire587319
West Sussex775572
Wiltshire701377
England64,39831,193
1 The hours worked during the survey week by non-teachers in various job categories are converted to full-time equivalent staff numbers by dividing 32·5 hours for nursery assistants and 37 hours for other categories.