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The following table provides the number and percentage of leadership group teachers, head, deputy and assistant head teachers, employed in local authority maintained schools in England who took early retirement in each of the last three years.
Number Percentage3 2005-064 1,650 2.9 2006-074 1,780 3.0 2007-084 1,720 2.9 1 Includes head teachers, deputy head teachers and assistant head teachers. 2 Includes teachers retiring under the premature and actuarially reduced pension arrangements. 3 The percentage rate is calculated from the number of early retirements divided by the headcount number of leadership group teachers, of all ages, recorded in service in January of the year in question. 4 All years are provisional and subject to slight revision due to the addition of retrospective awards and suspension of pension benefits where teachers return to service. Note: Numbers are rounded to the nearest 10. Source: Database of Teacher Records (retirement numbers) and Annual Survey of Teachers in Service and Teacher Vacancies, 618g, (teacher numbers)