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Teachers: Vacancies

Volume 467: debated on Tuesday 13 November 2007

To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many (a) full-time and (b) part-time teacher vacancies there were in local authority maintained (i) primary, (ii) middle and (iii) upper schools in Suffolk in each of the last five years. (162597)

Information on teacher vacancies is available for nursery/primary and secondary Schools. Middle schools are included within both these two phases, as deemed, and upper schools within the secondary figures but neither group can be identified separately.

The following table provides the number of full-time and part-time vacancies in local authority maintained nursery/primary and secondary schools in Suffolk local authority and England in each January since 2003.

Full-time1 and part-time vacancy2 numbers in local authority maintained nursery/primary and secondary schools in Suffolk local authority and England, in January 2003 to 2007

Nursery and primary

Secondary

January

Full-time

Part-time

Full-time

Part-time

Suffolk

2003

6

17

2004

20

0

47

1

2005

16

3

7

6

2006

9

1

16

2

2007

6

1

31

5

England

2003

1,114

2,050

2004

778

133

1,627

191

2005

743

134

1,553

201

2006

709

146

1,340

154

2007

658

101

1,214

151

1 Advertised vacancies for full-time permanent appointments (or appointments of at least one term’s duration). Includes vacancies being filled on a temporary basis of less than one term.

2 Part time vacancies were not collected prior to 2004.

Source:

DCSF Annual 618g Survey