House of Lords written question – answered on 29 November 2011.
Lord Ashcroft
Conservative
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many sick days teachers in maintained schools have taken, by local authority, in the past year.
Lord Hill of Oareford
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Education, The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Education
Information on the number of sick days taken by teachers in the academic year 2010-11 is expected to become available in spring 2012.
For the academic year 2009-10 the number of sick days taken by teachers employed in publicly funded schools by local authority in England in November 2010 is provided in the table below.
| Full and Part-Time Teacher Sickness Absence in Publicly Funded Schools | ||||
| Year: Academic year 2009-10 | ||||
| Coverage: England | ||||
| Teacher Absence | ||||
| Number LA | Percentage of Teachers with at Least One Period of Sickness Absence (%) | Total Number of Days Lost to Sickness Absence | Average (Mean) Number of Days Lost to Teacher Sickness Absence (only Teachers in School Taking Sickness Absence) | Average Number of Days Lost to Teacher Sickness Absence (All Teachers in School) |
| England1 | 52 | 2,277,700 | 4.2 | 8.2 |
| 201 City of London | 45 | - | 1.4 | 30 |
| 202 Camden | 50 | 6,500 | 3.6 | 7.2 |
| 203 Greenwich | 55 | 11,500 | 3.9 | 7.0 |
| 204 Hackney | 50 | 8,800 | 3.8 | 7.7 |
| 205 Hammersmith and Fulham | 47 | 3,900 | 2.6 | 5.4 |
| 206 Islington | 56 | 7,500 | 4.0 | 7.1 |
| 207 Kensington and Chelsea | 48 | 2,500 | 2.7 | 5.6 |
| 208 Lambeth | 50 | 9,100 | 3.4 | 6.8 |
| 209 Lewisham | 55 | 9,600 | 4.3 | 7.7 |
| 210 Southwark | 54 | 10,300 | 3.7 | 6.9 |
| 211 Tower Hamlets | 64 | 14,800 | 4.5 | 7.0 |
| 212 Wandsworth | 52 | 8,800 | 3.3 | 6.4 |
| 213 Westminster | 46 | 5,300 | 2.9 | 6.2 |
| 301 Barking and Dagenham | 56 | 12,100 | 4.9 | 8.9 |
| 302 Barnet | 43 | 11,700 | 3.0 | 6.9 |
| 303 Bexley | 50 | 11,600 | 4.4 | 8.8 |
| 304 Brent | 51 | 10,900 | 3.4 | 6.6 |
| 305 Bromley | 52 | 11,100 | 3.4 | 6.6 |
| 306 Croydon | 44 | 11,500 | 2.9 | 6.6 |
| 307 Ealing | 49 | 11,500 | 3.4 | 7.1 |
| 308 Enfield | 54 | 15,200 | 4.0 | 7.5 |
| 309 Haringey | 61 | 12,400 | 5.1 | 8.4 |
| 310 Harrow | 55 | 8,100 | 3.8 | 6.9 |
| 311 Havering | 50 | 9,500 | 3.6 | 7.1 |
| 312 Hillingdon | 57 | 12,000 | 3.7 | 6.6 |
| 313 Hounslow | 50 | 10,000 | 3.5 | 7.2 |
| 314 Kingston upon Thames | 52 | 5,600 | 3.2 | 6.1 |
| 315 Merton | 54 | 5,600 | 3.4 | 6.2 |
| 316 Newham | 60 | 17,200 | 4.8 | 8.0 |
| 317 Redbridge | 48 | 11,800 | 3.3 | 69 |
| 318 Richmond upon Thames | 39 | 3,300 | 2.3 | 5.9 |
| 319 Sutton | 50 | 7,900 | 3.3 | 6.7 |
| 320 Waltham Forest | 59 | 12,000 | 4.5 | 7.7 |
| 330 Birmingham | 60 | 61,900 | 5.1 | 8.5 |
| 331 Coventry | 51 | 17,100 | 4.7 | 9.3 |
| 332 Dudley | 57 | 14,700 | 4.8 | 8.4 |
| 333 Sandwell | 55 | 16,600 | 4.7 | 8.6 |
| 334 Solihull | 52 | 11,400 | 4.3 | 8.3 |
| 335 Walsall | 48 | 24,800 | 8.4 | 17.7 |
| 336 Wolverhampton | 53 | 13,400 | 4.7 | 8.8 |
| 340 Knowsley | 57 | 7,200 | 4.7 | 8.3 |
| 341 Liverpool | 47 | 20,200 | 4.4 | 9.5 |
| 342 St Helens | 49 | 7,400 | 4.8 | 9.8 |
| 343 Sefton | 55 | 13,900 | 4.7 | 8.7 |
| 344 Wirral | 44 | 14,500 | 3.9 | 87 |
| 350 Bolton | 50 | 10,400 | 3.8 | 7.7 |
| 351 Bury | .. | .. | .. | .. |
| 352 Manchester | 48 | 17,900 | 4.1 | 8.4 |
| 353 Oldham | 49 | 11,800 | 4.7 | 9.6 |
| 354 Rochdale | 49 | 11,300 | 5.2 | 10.6 |
| 355 Salford | 48 | 4,900 | 3.5 | 7.1 |
| 356 Stockport | 46 | 10,300 | 3.6 | 7.9 |
| 357 Tameside | 40 | 7,800 | 3.3 | 8.2 |
| 358 Trafford | 47 | 7,300 | 3.3 | 7.0 |
| 359 Wigan | 42 | 11,300 | 3.4 | 8.1 |
| 370 Barnsley | 56 | 12,900 | 6.0 | 10.7 |
| 371 Doncaster | 54 | 16,000 | 4.9 | 9.1 |
| 372 Rotherham | 49 | 11,300 | 3.6 | 7.2 |
| 373 Sheffield | 52 | 24,300 | 4.7 | 9.0 |
| 380 Bradford | 56 | 30,800 | 5.0 | 8.9 |
| 381 Calderdale | 51 | 11,600 | 4.9 | 9.6 |
| 382 Kirklees | .. | .. | .. | .. |
| 383 Leeds | 47 | 24,000 | 3.6 | 7.6 |
| 384 Wakefield | 46 | 12,100 | 3.8 | 8.3 |
| 390 Gateshead | 47 | 8,300 | 3.9 | 8.4 |
| 391 Newcastle upon Tyne | 52 | 11,900 | 4.6 | 8.9 |
| 392 North Tyneside | 60 | 9,000 | 4.8 | 8.0 |
| 393 South Tyneside | 48 | 4,300 | 3.8 | 7.9 |
| 394 Sunderland | 51 | 18,900 | 6.2 | 12.3 |
| 420 Isles of Scilly | 39 | 100 | 3.3 | 8.3 |
| 800 Bath and North East Somerset | 51 | 6,300 | 3.4 | 6.6 |
| 801 Bristol City of | 53 | 15,400 | 4.1 | 7.8 |
| 802 North Somerset | 49 | 7,800 | 3.9 | 8.1 |
| 803 South Gloucestershire | 53 | 11,800 | 4.0 | 7.5 |
| 805 Hartlepool | 48 | 5,800 | 5.5 | 11.6 |
| 806 Middlesbrough | 57 | 11,600 | 7.0 | 12.3 |
| 807 Redcar and Cleveland | 41 | 4,500 | 3.0 | 7.4 |
| 808 Stockton-on-Tees | 39 | 6,600 | 3.3 | 8.6 |
| 810 Kingston-upon-Hull City of | 46 | 10,400 | 4.0 | 8.7 |
| 811 East Riding of Yorkshire | 38 | 11,200 | 3.4 | 8.9 |
| 812 North East Lincolnshire | 48 | 6,900 | 4.4 | 9.1 |
| 813 North Lincolnshire | 50 | 7,500 | 4.6 | 9.2 |
| 815 North Yorkshire | 55 | 34,900 | 6.1 | 11.1 |
| 816 York | .. | .. | .. | .. |
| 821 Luton | 53 | 10,000 | 4.5 | 8.5 |
| 822 Bedford | 47 | 7,100 | 3.9 | 8.4 |
| 823 Central Bedfordshire | 45 | 12,700 | 3.9 | 8.7 |
| 825 Buckinghamshire | 44 | 19,300 | 3.2 | 7.2 |
| 826 Milton Keynes | 52 | 11,300 | 3.6 | 6.9 |
| 830 Derbyshire | 44 | 22,700 | 3.2 | 7.2 |
| 831 Derby | 61 | 11,400 | 5.0 | 8.1 |
| 835 Dorset | 49 | 13,200 | 3.3 | 6.8 |
| 836 Poole | 62 | 6,200 | 5.0 | 8.1 |
| 837 Bournemouth | 51 | 7,100 | 5.1 | 9.9 |
| 840 Durham | .. | .. | .. | .. |
| 841 Darlington | 47 | 4,300 | 4.6 | 9.7 |
| 845 East Sussex | 54 | 17,100 | 3.8 | 7.0 |
| 846 Brighton and Hove | 53 | 8,700 | 3.9 | 7.4 |
| 850 Hampshire | 52 | 53,800 | 4.5 | 8.6 |
| 851 Portsmouth | 57 | 10,000 | 5.8 | 10.1 |
| 852 Southampton | 58 | 9,400 | 4.6 | 7.8 |
| 855 Leicestershire | 52 | 26,000 | 3.9 | 7.5 |
| 856 Leicester | 53 | 15,700 | 4.4 | 8.3 |
| 857 Rutland | 45 | 700 | 2.5 | 5.4 |
| 860 Staffordshire | 51 | 44,900 | 5.2 | 10.2 |
| 861 Stoke-on-Trent | 42 | 8,000 | 3.6 | 8.4 |
| 865 Wiltshire | 47 | 15,600 | 3.2 | 6.8 |
| 866 Swindon | 48 | 7,300 | 3.6 | 7.5 |
| 867 Bracknell Forest | 59 | 3,200 | 3.4 | 5.7 |
| 868 Windsor and Maidenhead | 45 | 4,100 | 2.8 | 6.4 |
| 869 West Berkshire | 55 | 7,500 | 3.8 | 6.9 |
| 870 Reading | 48 | 4,300 | 3.1 | 6.5 |
| 871 Slough | 56 | 7,200 | 3.8 | 6.8 |
| 872 Wokingham | 53 | 5,800 | 3.2 | 6.1 |
| 873 Cambridgeshire | 53 | 20,900 | 3.8 | 7.3 |
| 874 Peterborough | 51 | 8,400 | 4.1 | 8.1 |
| 876 Halton | 36 | 4,300 | 3.5 | 9.7 |
| 877 Warrington | 49 | 8,700 | 4.0 | 8.2 |
| 878 Devon | 50 | 25,500 | 3.5 | 7.0 |
| 879 Plymouth | 53 | 12,700 | 4.7 | 8.9 |
| 880 Torbay | 56 | 6,400 | 4.7 | 8.3 |
| 881 Essex | 51 | 54,100 | 4.0 | 7.8 |
| 882 Southend-on-Sea | 49 | 8,400 | 3.9 | 8.0 |
| 883 Thurrock | 49 | 7,200 | 4.8 | 9.7 |
| 884 Herefordshire | 42 | 4,900 | 3.2 | 7.5 |
| 885 Worcestershire | 53 | 27,200 | 4.7 | 8.8 |
| 886 Kent | 48 | 59,000 | 3.5 | 7.4 |
| 887 Medway | 50 | 11,600 | 4.1 | 8.2 |
| 888 Lancashire | 46 | 52,400 | 4.4 | 9.5 |
| 889 Blackburn with Darwen | 43 | 4,200 | 2.7 | 6.2 |
| 890 Blackpool | 60 | 8,700 | 6.2 | 10.4 |
| 891 Nottinghamshire | 50 | 36,400 | 4.3 | 8.6 |
| 892 Nottingham | 56 | 12,200 | 4.4 | 7.9 |
| 893 Shropshire | 47 | 17,500 | 5.5 | 11.8 |
| 894 Telford and Wrekin | .. | .. | .. | .. |
| 895 Cheshire East | 46 | 13,900 | 3.7 | 8.2 |
| 896 Cheshire West and Chester | 47 | 12,900 | 3.8 | 8.0 |
| 908 Cornwall | 51 | 22,000 | 4.3 | 8.4 |
| 909 Cumbria | 50 | 22,900 | 4.7 | 9.5 |
| 916 Gloucestershire | 43 | 19,900 | 3.0 | 7.0 |
| 919 Hertfordshire | 44 | 43,900 | 3.0 | 6.9 |
| 921 Isle of Wight | 49 | 5,500 | 4.1 | 8.4 |
| 925 Lincolnshire | 51 | 38,000 | 5.7 | 11.1 |
| 926 Norfolk | 53 | 32,800 | 4.4 | 8.3 |
| 928 Northamptonshire | 50 | 31,900 | 4.2 | 8.4 |
| 929 Northumberland | 38 | 15,200 | 3.3 | 8.6 |
| 931 Oxfordshire | 47 | 21,100 | 3.2 | 6.9 |
| 933 Somerset | 47 | 17,000 | 3.4 | 7.3 |
| 935 Suffolk | 42 | 23,700 | 3.1 | 7.3 |
| 936 Surrey | 47 | 32,300 | 3.1 | 6.5 |
| 937 Warwickshire | 46 | 19,900 | 3.6 | 7.8 |
| 938 West Sussex | 52 | 29,100 | 3.9 | 7.5 |
Source: School Workforce Census
1 The overall figures for England includes estimates for local authorities that are not available and therefore the sum of the days lost in each local authority will not equal this total.
.. Not available
- Nil or negligible
The information provided is from the school workforce census that was collected for the first time in November 2010.
Further information on teacher sickness absence, including national historical comparisons, is published in table 18 in the Statistical First Release School Workforce in England, November 2010 available at the following link: http://wwweducation.gov.uk/researchandstatistics/statistics/allstatistics/a00l96713/school-workforce-sfr.
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