The rate of teachers leaving the state sector for reasons other than retirement grew to a record high last year, with nearly 40,000 departures.
New school workforce data, published today, shows that 39,930 teachers (8.8 per cent of the sector) left state schools in the 2021-22 academic year, up 7,800 on the previous year when 6.9 per cent left.
This is the highest since data for the recent records from the 2010-11 census began.
When you include those who retired or died, the overall number of leavers was 43,997 – meaning 9.7 per cent of the teaching workforce left last year.
