Teachers Taking a Period of Sickness Absence
Sickness absence of teachers in maintained schools, (1 January - 31 December)
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TotalMetadata
Title
Teachers sickness absenceLast update
September 2021Next update
July 2022Publishing organisation
Welsh GovernmentSource 1
Teacher sickness absence annual returns, Welsh GovernmentSource 2
Pupil Level Annual School Census (PLASC), Welsh GovernmentContact email
EducationWorkforceData@gov.walesDesignation
Management informationLowest level of geographical disaggregation
Local authoritiesGeographical coverage
WalesLanguages covered
English and WelshData 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-licenceGeneral 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
AnnualData reference periods
From 2015 onwards.Rounding applied
NoneRevisions information
Revised 9th September 2021 due to updated figures provided by Vale of Glamorgan for 2018.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'.
