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 "title": "Teachers and teacher vacancies in state-funded schools, England",
 "category": "education",
 "summary": "Full-time equivalent teachers in England's state-funded schools each November since 2010, classroom and leadership teachers among them, and the teacher vacancies the schools reported, from the DfE's school workforce census.",
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  "Teachers in England's state-funded schools in November of the first year shown (the school workforce census), as full-time equivalents: all teachers, and the classroom teachers and leadership teachers (head, deputy and assistant head teachers) among them.",
  "Vacancies are the full-time teacher vacancies, advertised or not, that schools reported on census day; the DfE's rate is vacancies as a percentage of teachers in post."
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  "latest_period": "2025/26",
  "period_end": "2025-11-30",
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   "2011/12": 0.1,
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   "2018/19": 0.26,
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   "2021/22": 0.34,
   "2022/23": 0.5,
   "2023/24": 0.6,
   "2024/25": 0.47,
   "2025/26": 0.35
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  "release": "Reporting year 2025",
  "published": "2026-06-04"
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  "period": "2025/26",
  "note": "1,615 vacancies, a rate of 0.35%"
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   "name": "Leadership teachers",
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    {
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  },
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   "name": "Teacher vacancies",
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