Jump in teachers leaving, plus six more school workforce findings

Thousands more teachers are leaving the profession as the pandemic’s effect wears off, new figures suggest, with vacancies at their highest level in more than a decade.

Official census data on the school workforce, collected last November and published today, also shows more newly qualified teachers leaving within a year.

It also shows heads and teachers went into the current cost-of-living squeeze – with inflation now at 9 per cent – off the back of just 0.8 per cent and 1.4 per cent annual rises in average pay, respectively.