If in regular service (28 days or more during the reportable period), school workforce level data should be returned for:

  • teachers employed by the school, both with and without Qualified Teacher Status

  • apprentice teachers

  • support staff employed by the school

  • teachers working at the school who have been supplied by an agency or a local

  • authority if the local authority is acting like a supply agency

  • staff on paid or unpaid absence, whether long or short term

  • teachers on the School Direct programme and the Teach First programme

School workforce level data does not need to be returned for the following:

  • temporary staff with service of less than 28 days

  • casual staff without contracts, employed on an ad hoc basis

  • trainee teachers on teaching practice

  • trainee teachers on a School-Centred Initial Teacher Training (SCITT) programme

  • staff working in extended school service provision, for example, breakfast and after school clubs, Sure Start and children’s centres. Note that staff engaged in the normal running of the school, such as cleaners, should be included regardless of when they work, for example, before, after or during the normal school day

  • staff employed by the local authority that provides support to schools for example,

  • peripatetic music teachers, advisory teachers, educational psychologists, educational welfare officers (information on these will be submitted by the local authority)

  • teachers only engaged in one to one tuition

  • governors and voluntary staff

  • staff for whom there is no role identifier code that equates to the function they carry out, for example, clerk to governors, school crossing patrol staff