Temporary Teacher Contracts - Freedom of information requests

Title or Description: Temporary Teacher Contracts
FOI Number: 15492
Date Received: 11/08/2021
Type of Request: FOI
Request or Question: I would be grateful if you could provide the following information under freedom of information legislation:* The percentage of teachers employed by this local authority who are on temporary contracts. I would like this information for each of the last five academic years.
Response: These figures are based on the employee’s main post holding and exclude supply teachers. The figures include principle teachers and head/depute head teachers.Year Temp %age
2016/17 (snapshot date 31/07/2017) 11.07%
2017/18 (snapshot date 31/07/2018) 13.64%
2018/19 (snapshot date 31/07/2019) 15.49%
2019/20 (snapshot date 31/07/2020) 14.88%
2020/21 (snapshot date 31/07/2021) 18.10%