Written Question·Department for Education·UIN 41418

Teaching Assistants: Temporary Employment

Tabled: 26 March 2025

Answered: 3 April 2025

Question

Jim Shannon

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of the number of teaching assistants who are on temporary contracts.

Answer

Catherine McKinnell

Education is a devolved matter, and as such the response below outlines the information for schools in England only.As of November 2023, the latest date for which data is available, there was a headcount of 395,585 teaching assistants (282,925 full-time e...

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