FOI Request - Teacher Workforce Vacancies by Subject and Time to Fill

Request 101003854098

Scope and timeframe

Please provide the following recorded information for local-authority school services for academic years 2015/16 to 2024/25 (year-to-date):

A. Workforce and vacancies (annual):
• Total teacher FTE (all permanent + fixed-term).
• Vacancies at 30 September each year: total; and for secondary, a subject split (e.g., English, Maths, Physics, etc.) where routinely held.
• Time-to-fill secondary posts by subject: median days (and, if held, 90th percentile), with your measure definition.

B. Supply/relief/agency context (annual):
• Gross spend on supply/relief/agency teachers; where held, split between council bank/relief and external agency.

C. Definitions and guidance:
• Your vacancy status definitions and how time-to-fill is measured (e.g., advert ? offer accepted or start date).
• Any internal guidance used for vacancy tracking or subject coding.

D. Management information:
• Copies of any management/committee reports since 1 August 2023 that summarise teacher workforce, vacancies, recruitment, or time-to-fill.

Format
Please supply data in a machine-readable format (CSV or XLSX). For datasets, fields like academic_year, teacher_fte_total, vacancies_total, vacancies_secondary_subject, median_time_to_fill_days, supply_spend_gbp would be helpful.

Disclosure control / personal data
I seek aggregate, anonymised figures only and no personal data. Where necessary, please apply standard disclosure control (e.g., suppress values <5).

Advice & assistance / cost
If you estimate this may exceed the section 12 cost limit, please advise under section 15 how I can refine it—for example, by limiting the subject list, reducing the timeframe, or providing service-level totals only.

Published information
If any of the requested information is already published (section 25), please provide the direct URL and the exact document/table location.

Information not held / exemptions
If any part of the request is not held (section 17), please state this explicitly.
If you intend to withhold information, please provide a schedule of documents/fields withheld, the exemption/exception relied upon (e.g., s30/s33 FOISA or EIR 10), and the public-interest test where applicable.