About the authors

The Department for Education is responsible for the collation and management of the NPD and SWC, and is the Data Controller of NPD and SWC data. [...] The use of the ONS statistical data in this work does not imply the endorsement of the ONS in relation to the interpretation or analysis of the statistical data. [...] Our employment data is drawn from the School Workforce Census (SWC), and we use this data to track staff movement between schools and into and out of the English state school workforce to construct two metrics for each staff type (classroom teachers and teaching assistants): the average annual turnover rate in the three academic years 2016/17 to 2019/20 and the 3-year cumulative turnover rate to 2. [...] Due to the effects of the pandemic, both in terms of some data collections not happening, and the inconsistent effects of the pandemic on the measures themselves, the analysis uses pre-pandemic data. [...] We use the SWC to track staff movement between schools, and into and out of the English state school workforce to construct two metrics for each staff type (classroom teachers and teaching assistants): ▪ the average annual turnover rate in the three academic years 2016/17 to 2019/20 The number of staff ‘exiting’ a group between n and n-1 (e.g., between 2016/17 and 2017/18), as a percentage of the.