Percentage of teachers leaving the profession by sector and destination

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Local Authority

Local Authority 1

Year

School Medium Type

School Medium Type 1

Measure1

Destination

Destination 1

Sector

Sector 1

Total leavers from the profession

Total leavers from the profession

Non-teaching capacity within education system

Employed outside education

Early retirement

Retirement

Other

Unknown

All schools

0.8

1.4

1.8

1.0

3.9

0.9

9.6

All schools

Nursery schools Nursery: age under 5.

9.7

0.0

8.4

0.0

5.8

29.6

Primary schools Primary: ages 3/4 to 10.

0.8

1.3

2.1

0.7

4.5

0.7

10.1

Middle schools Middle: ages 3/4 to 16/18.

0.8

1.4

1.7

0.7

2.7

0.7

8.0

Secondary schools Secondary: ages 11 to 16/18.

0.7

1.7

1.4

1.3

3.3

1.0

9.3

Special schools Special schools, both day and boarding, provide education for children with Special Educational Needs who cannot be educated satisfactorily in mainstream schools.

Special schools, both day and boarding, provide education for children with Special Educational Needs who cannot be educated satisfactorily in mainstream schools.

0.5

0.9

1.5

0.8

4.1

1.2

8.9

Pupil Referral Units

0.7

1.1

2.2

1.5

2.5

0.7

8.7

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Statistical quality information
High level information
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General description

The data covers different aspects of the school workforce in Wales, using the data collected from the School Workforce Annual Census (SWAC).

Frequency of publication

Annual

Rounding applied

* = numbers greater than zero but less than five. Teacher numbers have been rounded to the nearest 5.

Statistical quality

The information collected for 2021 to 2023 has not undergone a formal final validation period. However, various stages of automated validation and sense-checking are built into the process to ensure a high quality of data to inform policy making.

Title

Percentage of teachers leaving the profession by sector and destination

Last update

July 2024

Next update

July 2025 (provisional)

Publishing organisation

Welsh Government

Source 1

School Workforce Annual Census

Contact email

EducationWorkforceData@gov.wales

Designation

Experimental statistics

Geographical coverage

Local authorities

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

Keywords

SWAC; Teachers; Workforce; Leavers; Destination; Experience

Name

SCHW0037