HC Deb 19 June 2003 vol 407 cc364-5W
Mr. Wray

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many education support staff have been employed in each year since 1997; and what duties they carried out. [118256]

Mr. Miliband

Information on the number of support staff is shown in the table. The deployment of support staff is a matter for individual schools. No information on this deployment is available centrally.

5 Due to a reporting problem at source, the number of child care staff has not been recorded accurately by schools, resulting in child care staff being distributed across other support staff categories.

6 Includes: librarians, welfare assistants, learning mentors and any other support staff regularly employed in schools; matrons, nurses, other medical staff in nursery schools.

Source:

Annual School Census