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Data Provider: Welsh Government Experimental Statistics Teachers (headcount) by staff category and age range
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[Collapse]Total teachers3,3909,65023,91525,72514,8651,435.The data item is not applicable78,975
Total teachers[Collapse]Total: Qualified teachers2,9409,24523,36525,22014,5601,350.The data item is not applicable76,670
Total: Qualified teachersExecutive headteacher.The data item is not applicable.The data item is not applicable*Numbers greater than zero but less than five.7595*Numbers greater than zero but less than five..The data item is not applicable190
Headteachers.The data item is not applicable.The data item is not applicable2601,5351,810115.The data item is not applicable3,730
Acting headteachers.The data item is not applicable*Numbers greater than zero but less than five.80170105*Numbers greater than zero but less than five..The data item is not applicable355
Deputy headteachers.The data item is not applicable*Numbers greater than zero but less than five.7501,75077540.The data item is not applicable3,340
Assistant head teachers.The data item is not applicable*Numbers greater than zero but less than five.6851,45571040.The data item is not applicable2,920
Leading practitioner*Numbers greater than zero but less than five.*Numbers greater than zero but less than five.10010540*Numbers greater than zero but less than five..The data item is not applicable270
Qualified classroom teachers2,9409,19521,44520,10511,0001,120.The data item is not applicable65,800
Teachers of the Deaf.The data item is not applicable*Numbers greater than zero but less than five.3015*Numbers greater than zero but less than five.*Numbers greater than zero but less than five..The data item is not applicable70
Teachers of the Visually Impaired.The data item is not applicable.The data item is not applicable.The data item is not applicable.The data item is not applicable.The data item is not applicable.The data item is not applicable.The data item is not applicable.The data item is not applicable
[Expand]Unqualified teacher8013019520514045.The data item is not applicable790
[Expand]Other teachersOther teachers: not QTS status but not \'unqualified\' i.e. those covered by Education Specified Work and Registration65125205160100*Numbers greater than zero but less than five..The data item is not applicable665
[Expand]Permanent supply teacherPermanent supply teacher: other than any entered in above categories (nursery schools only)*Numbers greater than zero but less than five.40556035*Numbers greater than zero but less than five..The data item is not applicable220
[Expand]Contracted supply teacherContracted supply teacher (non-agency)25*Numbers greater than zero but less than five.354030*Numbers greater than zero but less than five..The data item is not applicable155
[Expand]ITT TraineesTrainees on Initial Teacher Training courses27010065*Numbers greater than zero but less than five.*Numbers greater than zero but less than five.*Numbers greater than zero but less than five..The data item is not applicable460

Metadata

Title

Teachers (headcount) by category and age range

Last update

July 2023 July 2023

Next update

July 2024 (provisional)

Publishing organisation

Welsh Government

Source 1

School Workforce Annual Census

Contact email

EducationWorkforceData@gov.wales

Designation

Experimental statistics

Lowest level of geographical disaggregation

Wales

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

General description

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

Data collection and calculation

School's data are derived from the School Workforce Annual Census (SWAC) returns in November each year. In 2019, there were 4 schools out of 1,502 (99.7% return rate) that did not submit a SWAC school return. For these schools the total number of staff was estimated using a scaling factor derived by comparing staff headcount numbers returned in SWAC and the Pupil Level Annual School Census (PLASC) by schools with similar characteristics within the same local authority. The estimated figures for the missing schools have been recorded as ‘unknown’ for breakdowns by specific characteristics (e.g. sex, age).

Frequency of publication

Annual

Data reference periods

from 2019/20 onwards.

Users, uses and context

As SWAC is an individual level collection there may be instances where a workforce member is recorded against multiple roles within the same school or in multiple schools. For local authority staff headcount, as part of the linking and aggregation process, those teachers with more than one role (e.g. working part-time in two schools) have their information combined into one record for each local authority they appear in, recorded against the highest grade for that individual.
For Wales level headcount, the same rationale is applied where teachers with more than one role (e.g. working part-time in two schools) but in different local authorities have their information combined into one record, recorded against the highest grade for the individual.
For this reason, where information is published by local authority the sum of local authorities may not equal to the Wales figure published.

Due to changes to calculation of headcounts for 2020, figures for 2019 are not directly comparable to future years figures. See our 'School Workforce Census Results' statistical release and accompanying ‘School Workforce Annual Census: Background Information’ for further detail.

Rounding applied

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


Keywords

SWAC; Teachers; Age; Sex

Statistical quality

The information collected for 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022 have 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.