§ Mr. Duffyasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science how many vacancies existed for teachers in primary schools in the West Riding of Yorkshire at the beginning of the present term; how many are expected to persist until Easter; how many part-time teachers are employed; and how many primary schools are experiencing a 50 per cent. turnover of staff in less than five years.
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§ Mr. RedheadI understand that at the beginning of the present term the West Riding local education authority were advertising vacancies for some 450 full-time qualified teachers to fill posts in their primary schools at present staffed in other ways. All or nearly all of these vacancies are expected to persist until Easter. About 560 part-time teachers (equivalent to 260 full-time teachers) are employed in the Authority's primary schools. The Authority estimate that about 500 or roughly half of their primary schools have a fifty per cent. turnover of staff in less than five years.