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Headteachers: Early Retirement

Volume 480: debated on Wednesday 8 October 2008

To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many (a) headteachers and (b) deputy headteachers took early retirement in each of the last three years; and if he will make a statement. (223719)

The information is not available in the format requested.

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.

Leadership group teachers1 early retirements2 from local authority maintained schools—coverage: England

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)