§ Mr. Don FosterTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment (1) how many teacher ill health retirement cases have been(a) approved and (b) turned down since April 1997 in each local education authority area; [43117]
(2) how many (a) heads and (b) deputy heads have (i) sought ill health retirement and (ii) had their applications for ill health retirement rejected since April 1997 in each local education authority. [43118]
§ Dr. HowellsThe table shows the number of teachers in each local education authority who were awarded ill-health retirement in financial year 1997–98. The table 359W covers the maintained nursery, primary, secondary and special education sectors in England. Information is not held by LEA of the number of applications which are
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Ill-health retirees whose last known service was in the maintained nursery, primary, secondary or special sector— England 1997–98 provisional Last known grade on or before 31 March 1997 Last known LEA Headteachers Deputy Headteachers Classroom Teachers Total City of London 0 0 0 0 Camden * 0 6 7 Greenwich * 0 9 11 Hackney * 0 5 7 Hammersmith and Fulham * 5 14 21 Islington 0 0 16 16 Kensington and Chelsea 0 0 * * Lambeth * 0 10 11 Lewisham 0 0 7 7 Southwark 0 * 8 9 Tower Hamlets 0 * 11 13 Wandsworth * 5 5 13 City of Westminster 0 * 5 6 Barking and Dagenham * * 8 10 Barnet * 0 14 15 Bexley * * 6 10 Brent 0 0 9 9 Bromley 0 * 6 8 Croydon * 0 10 11 Ealing 0 0 9 9 Enfield 0 0 9 9 Haringey * 0 * 7 Harrow * 0 5 7 Havering * 0 13 14 Hillingdon * 0 6 7 Hounslow * * 5 7 Kingston upon Thames * * 7 9 Merton * * 6 8 Newham 0 * 11 12 Redbridge * * * 6 Richmond upon Thames 0 0 6 6 Sutton 0 * 6 7 Waltham Forest * * 9 13 Birmingham 8 7 64 79 Coventry * 0 18 19 Dudley * * 12 17 Sand well * 0 15 17 Solihull * 0 12 14 Walsall * 0 17 20 Wolverhampton * 0 23 25 Knowlsey * * 11 13 Liverpool 7 * 29 38 St. Helens * * 12 14 Sefton * * 24 31 Wirral * 0 21 23 Bolton 5 * 26 33 Bury * 0 7 8 Manchester 6 0 27 33 Oldham * * 20 25 Rochdale * * 13 15 Salford * * 13 19 Stockport * * 18 23 Tameside * 0 11 13 Trafford * 0 14 16 Wigan * * 21 23 Barnsley * * 11 19 Doncaster * 0 13 14 Rotherham * * 14 17 Sheffield 5 * 25 34 Bradford * * 29 36 Calderdale * * 13 16 Kirklees * 0 33 37 Leeds 8 * 50 62 rejected. The rejected rate is approximately 30 per cent. of all applications received.
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Ill-health retirees whose last known service was in the maintained nursery, primary, secondary or special sector— England 1997–98 provisional Last known grade on or before 31 March 1997 Last known LEA Headteachers Deputy Headteachers Classroom Teachers Total Wakefield * * 13 16 Gateshead * * 13 15 Newcastle upon Tyne * 0 14 16 North Tyneside 0 * 7 8 South Tyneside * * 18 20 Sunderland * * 23 29 Isles of Scilly 0 0 0 0 Bath and North East Somerset * * 5 8 City of Bristol * * 21 24 North Somerset * * 10 13 South Gloucestershire * * 8 10 Hartlepool * * * 7 Middlesbrough * 0 7 10 Redcar and Cleveland * * 16 19 Stockton-on-Tees 0 * 20 21 City of Kingston upon Hull * * 14 16 East Riding of Yorkshire * * 12 15 North East Lincolnshire * * 10 14 North Lincolnshire * * 12 15 North Yorkshire 9 * 20 31 York * 0 9 11 Bedfordshire * 0 9 12 Luton 0 0 8 8 Buckinghamshire * * 11 14 Milton Keynes * 0 * * Derbyshire 6 * 20 30 City of Derby * * 8 10 Dorset * * 14 17 Poole * 0 * * Bournemouth 0 * * 5 Durham 0 * 35 37 Darlington 0 0 5 5 East Sussex * * 18 21 Brighton and Hove * * 7 10 Hampshire * * 40 47 Portsmouth 0 0 10 10 Southampton 0 0 * * Leicestershire * * 16 19 Leicester City * 0 10 11 Rutland 0 0 * * Staffordshire * * 31 36 Sotke on Trent * * 22 25 Wiltshire * * 11 17 Swindon * 0 * * Berkshire 6 * 30 37 Cambridgeshire * * 27 35 Cheshire * 5 34 43 Cornwall 7 * 32 40 Cumbria 9 * 25 35 Devon 9 * 70 82 Essex 8 8 52 68 Gloucestershire * * 21 27 Hereford and Worcester * * 25 31 Hertfordshire * 5 45 52 Isle of Wight * * 7 10 Kent 14 * 72 90 Lancashire 9 10 104 123 Lincolnshire 6 * 29 36 Norfolk 6 5 43 54 Northampton shire * * 28 32 Northumberland * * 18 26 Nottinghamshire * * 54 62 Oxfordshire * * 23 29 Shropshire 9 * 19 29 Somerset 5 * 24 32 Suffolk * 6 24 34 Surrey * * 31 37
Ill-health retirees whose last known service was in the maintained nursery, primary, secondary or special sector— England 1997–98 provisional Last known grade on or before 31 March 1997 Last known LEA Warwickshire Headteachers Deputy Headteachers Classroom Teachers Total Warwickshire * * 20 27 West Sussex * * 44 49 Not known 27 16 163 206 Total 349 227 2,477 3,053 Notes:
1. Includes all retirees whether or not retiring directly from teaching service.
2. The LEA shown is the last known before retirement.
3. To avoid disclosure of sensitive information on individuals, numbers less than 5 are shown as asterisks.
4. Not known category includes teachers whose last known LEA no longer exists due to local government re-organisation.
Source:
DfEE Database of Teacher Records and Pensioner statistics database.