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Teachers: Qualifications

Volume 491: debated on Tuesday 21 April 2009

To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what proportion of teachers in each local authority area were classified as unqualified in the latest period for which figures are available; and if he will make a statement. (263882)

The following table shows the proportion of full-time equivalent number of teachers without qualified teacher status (QTS) employed in local authority maintained schools by each local authority in England in January 2008, the latest information available.

Teachers without QTS include instructors, overseas trained teachers and teachers on employment based routes to qualified teacher status (Graduate Teacher Programme, the Registered Teachers Programme, the Overseas Trained Teachers Programme and the Teach First Scheme).

Percentages of full-time equivalent regular teachers without qualified teacher status1 in local authority maintained schools in each local authority2, Years: January 2008—Coverage: England

Percentage of unqualified teachers

England

3.9

Gateshead

0.7

Newcastle upon Tyne

2.5

North Tyneside

1.3

South Tyneside

1.1

Sunderland

3.1

Hartlepool

4.5

Middlesbrough

2.4

Redcar and Cleveland

4.0

Stockton on Tees

2.7

Darlington

3.8

Durham

2.1

Northumberland

1.4

North East

2.3

Cumbria

1.0

Cheshire

1.5

Halton

1.7

Warrington

1.6

Bolton

2.7

Bury

1.4

Manchester

3.7

Oldham

2.9

Rochdale

2.0

Salford

3.6

Stockport

0.7

Tameside

1.8

Trafford

1.3

Wigan

1.2

Lancashire

1.3

Blackburn with Darwen

0.8

Blackpool

2.5

Knowsley

1.6

Liverpool

1.3

St. Helens

0.9

Sefton

1.7

Wirral

1.1

North West

1.7

Kingston-Upon-Hull, City of

7.9

East Riding of Yorkshire

2.8

North East Lincolnshire

5.1

North Lincolnshire

3.3

North Yorkshire

3.4

York

1.8

Barnsley

1.9

Doncaster

2.8

Rotherham

2.6

Sheffield

3.2

Bradford

1.2

Calderdale

1.5

Kirklees

1.3

Leeds

2.1

Wakefield

2.2

Yorkshire and the Humber

2.7

Derbyshire

1.2

Derby

3.2

Leicestershire

3.5

Leicester

4.9

Rutland

n/a

Lincolnshire

6.2

Northamptonshire

4.0

Nottinghamshire

2.4

Nottingham

3.7

East Midlands

3.5

Herefordshire

1.7

Worcestershire

1.8

Shropshire

2.0

Telford and Wrekin

2.0

Staffordshire

2.8

Stoke-on-Trent

3.6

Warwickshire

3.4

Birmingham

3.9

Coventry

3.5

Dudley

3.4

Sandwell

0.9

Solihull

3.7

Walsall

3.9

Wolverhampton

3.9

West Midlands

3.1

Cambridgeshire

3.7

Peterborough

5.4

Norfolk

5.4

Suffolk

2.0

Bedfordshire

6.3

Luton

9.0

Essex

3.7

Southend-on-Sea

12.0

Thurrock

8.6

Hertfordshire

6.6

East of England

5.2

City of London

n/a

Camden

7.8

Greenwich

7.4

Hackney

8.0

Hammersmith and Fulham

8.6

Islington

8.2

Kensington and Chelsea

14.8

Lambeth

6.7

Lewisham

4.5

Southwark

11.5

Tower Hamlets

9.4

Wandsworth

8.4

Westminster

10.6

Barking and Dagenham

9.3

Barnet

7.8

Bexley

4.6

Brent

9.2

Bromley

5.7

Croydon

7.1

Ealing

8.3

Enfield

5.5

Haringey

6.9

Harrow

8.5

Havering

6.7

Hillingdon

7.6

Hounslow

6.9

Kingston upon Thames

3.2

Merton

6.1

Newham

5.3

Redbridge

7.5

Richmond upon Thames

3.3

Sutton

4.6

Waltham Forest

8.2

London

7.3

Bracknell Forest

5.3

Windsor and Maidenhead

6.1

West Berkshire

3.8

Reading

5.7

Slough

9.5

Wokingham

2.5

Buckinghamshire

4.8

Milton Keynes

3.7

East Sussex

3.2

Brighton and Hove

2.3

Hampshire

4.0

Portsmouth

4.2

Southampton

3.8

Isle of Wight

6.1

Kent

8.3

Medway

4.9

Oxfordshire

3.7

Surrey

3.7

West Sussex

1.9

South East

4.7

Isles of Scilly

n/a

Bath and North East Somerset

0.7

City of Bristol

2.1

North Somerset

0.2

South Gloucestershire

0.9

Cornwall

4.5

Devon

1.5

Plymouth

2.2

Torbay

2.5

Dorset

2.9

Poole

1.7

Bournemouth

3.9

Gloucestershire

1.7

Somerset

1.9

Wiltshire

1.7

Swindon

2.8

South West

2.1

n/a = not available

1 Includes instructors, overseas trained teachers and teachers on employment based routes to qualified teacher status (Graduate Teacher Programme, the Registered Teachers Programme, the Overseas Trained Teachers Programme and the Teach First Scheme).

2 Local authorities with less than 10 unqualified teachers are shown as not available.

Source:

Annual Survey Of Teachers In Service And Teacher Vacancies, 618g