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Data Provider: Welsh Government Management Information Average Number of Days Lost due to Sickness

Sickness absence of teachers in maintained schools, (1 January - 31 December)

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Year<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Calendar year <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> [Filtered]
Measure2
Variable(Ascending)[Filtered]
[Collapse]Type Teacher working pattern<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> [Filter]
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Type 1
[Collapse]Area Local Authorities in Wales<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> [Filter]
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Area 1
[Collapse]Average sick leave days per teacher in post[Collapse]Average sick leave days per teacher taking sick leave
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Click here to sortPart-timeClick here to sortFull-timeClick here to sortPart-timeClick here to sortFull-time
[Collapse]All Welsh local authorities565111212
All Welsh local authoritiesIsle of Anglesey37661412
Gwynedd566111011
Conwy56681110
Denbighshire254366
Flintshire676141515
Wrexham35581413
Powys35491211
Ceredigion533877
Pembrokeshire46691212
Carmarthenshire36591413
Swansea756141011
Neath Port Talbot47681312
Bridgend666151414
Vale of Glamorgan555161515
Cardiff766151213
Rhondda Cynon Taf565101212
Merthyr Tydfil544101212
Caerphilly455101212
Blaenau Gwent977171717
Torfaen55581010
Monmouthshire354111211
Newport3547109

Metadata

General description

The data covers the sickness absence (including unpaid absence) of qualified and unqualified teachers with permanent contracts or contracts of more than 1 month, during the previous calendar year.

Data collection and calculation

This information is collected directly from the local authorities in January each year.
The percentage of teachers taking a period of sickness absence has been calculated using data from the Pupil Level Annual School Census (PLASC).



Frequency of publication

Annual

Data reference periods

From 2015 onwards.

Rounding applied

None

Revisions information

Revised 9th September 2021 due to updated figures provided by Vale of Glamorgan for 2018.

Title

Teachers sickness absence

Last update

September 2021 September 2021

Next update

July 2022

Publishing organisation

Welsh Government

Source 1

Teacher sickness absence annual returns, Welsh Government

Source 2

Pupil Level Annual School Census (PLASC), Welsh Government

Contact email

EducationWorkforceData@gov.wales

Designation

Management information

Lowest level of geographical disaggregation

Local authorities

Geographical coverage

Wales

Languages covered

English and Welsh

Data licensing

You may use and re-use this data free of charge in any format or medium, under the terms of the Open Government License - see http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence

Statistical quality

Sickness absence returns are collated from schools and validated by Local Authorities. Subsequently automated validation and sense-checks are built into the data collection process to ensure a high quality of data. This data relates to maintained schools only and relates to the previous calendar year.

Figures for 2020 include some Covid related absences. Processes for recording Covid related absences varied across local authorities, and were not all able to separate those instances from general sickness absences. Therefore, where local authorities were able to split out their Covid related absences they have been included in the figures for 2020 for consistency.

For the 2020 data, the form only requested for total number days lost for COVID sickness absences. Where local authorities provided total number of days lost due to Covid related absences they have been included as 'Unknown'.

Keywords

Teacher; Sickness Absence; Sick Leave; Education; Workforce; Illness