§ Mr. Ieuan Wyn JonesTo ask the Secretary of State for Wales how many teachers who left the teaching profession in Wales last year, by education authority, did so on grounds of stress and ill health. [31367]
§ Mr. HainThe following table shows the latest available data on the number of teacher retirements due to ill-health. Details of stress-related retirements are not held centrally:
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Number of teacher retirements due to ill-health 1996/971 LEA 2 Maintained Schools3 Other4 Clwyd 21 1 Dyfed 25 2 Gwent 16 2 Gwynedd (Pre LGR) 9 4 Mid Glamorgan 28 4 Powys 8 1 South Glamorgan 5 3 West Glamorgan 10 2 Anglesey 8 0 Gwynedd (Post LGR) 11 2 Conwy 5 2 Denbighshire 8 0 Flintshire 4 1 Wrexham 8 1 Powys 8 0 Ceredigion 22 1 Pembrokeshire 9 0 Carmarthenshire 17 2
Number of teacher retirements due to ill-health 1996/971 LEA2 Maintained Schools 3 Other4 Swansea 35 1 Neath & Port Talbot 17 4 Bridgend 16 1 Vale of Glamorgan 11 0 Rhondda, Cynon, Taff 38 2 Merthyr Tydfil 10 0 Caerphilly 21 0 Blaenau Gwent 3 0 Torfaen 5 0 Monmouthshire 7 3 Newport 18 0 Cardiff 22 1 Wales 425 40 1Source: Teacher Pensions Agency's Database of Teacher Records 2The LEA given is the last known employer. Those included under the old LEAs are teachers who discontinued teaching prior to local government reform but did not take official retirement until 1996/97. 3Includes maintained nursery, primary, secondary and special schools. 4Includes further and higher education and some independent schools.