Education Personnel Sickness Absence
Please provide sickness absence data for employees of maintained schools within the authority for the period 1 September 2025 to 31 August 2026. Please provide: 1. The total number of working days lost due to sickness absence. 2. The total number of working days lost due to sickness absence recorded as stress, anxiety, depression, mental ill-health or any equivalent mental health-related category used by the authority. 3. The total number of school employees who had one or more periods of sickness absence recorded under those mental health-related categories. 4. A breakdown of those employees by age range and gender, in the following format: Age Range Male Female Unknown /Prefer not to say up to 20 21 to 29 30 to 39 40 to 49 50 to 59 60 and above For the avoidance of doubt, "school employees" includes teaching and support staff employed in maintained schools, including headteachers, teachers, teaching assistants, administrative staff, and other school-based employees. Where disclosure of small numbers could identify individuals, I am content for those figures to be suppressed or aggregated in accordance with data protection requirements.