FOI Request - Retiring and Long Term Sick Teaching Staff
Request 101003630780
1. Please provide me with the total number of teaching staff in your local authority.
2. Please provide me with the a) number and b) percentage of teaching staff in your local authority who are due to retire this year through reaching retirement age.
3. Please provide me with the a) number and b) percentage of teaching staff in your local authority who are due to retire this year by taking early retirement.
4. Please provide me with the a) number and b) percentage of teaching staff in your local authority who are taking or have taken, a period of absence from work due to long term sickness.
Response 24-09-2024
1. 1250 employees
2.&3. Not held. Information that is not held falls under Section 17 of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 - Information not held. There is no longer a national compulsory retirement age and as such we process retirement and early retirement requests as and when applications are received.
We can however provide the staff profile information as at the September 2023 census. The information for September 2024 is still being collated and will be available by the end of October 2024.
| ALL School Teaching Staff | ||
| Age Range | Sep-23 | |
| 21-25 | 87 | 7.8% |
| 26-30 | 115 | 10.3% |
| 31-35 | 128 | 11.4% |
| 36-40 | 153 | 13.7% |
| 41-45 | 170 | 15.2% |
| 46-50 | 166 | 14.8% |
| 51-55 | 141 | 12.6% |
| 56-60 | 104 | 9.3% |
| 61-65 | 48 | 4.3% |
| 66 and over | 8 | 0.7% |
| 1120 | ||
4. Based on absences 28 days & over on August absence - 19 employees
Please note – as no period of time has been stated, the figure above is based as of end of August 2024