Department for Education
Academic year 2024/25

Further education workforce

This annual official statistics in development release includes data on the further education workforce and governors in England.

Official statistics
Department for Education
Published
Last updated
1 updatefor Academic year 2024/25

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If you have a specific enquiry about Further education workforce statistics and data:

Further Education Workforce Team

Email: FurtherEducation.WORKFORCE@education.gov.uk
Contact name: Fran Elliott

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If you have a media enquiry:

Telephone: 020 7783 8300

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If you have a general enquiry about the Department for Education (DfE) or education:

Phone: 0370 000 2288

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Official statistics

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This can be broadly interpreted to mean that these statistics are:

  • managed impartially and objectively in the public interest
  • meet identified user needs
  • produced according to sound methods
  • well explained and readily accessible

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Pre-release access list

Besides Department for Education (DfE) professional and production staff, the following post holders were given pre-release access up to 24 hours before release.

Besides Department for Education (DfE) professional and production staff, the following post holders were given pre-release access up to 24 hours before release.

Secretary of State for Education
Permanent Secretary
Minister for Skills
Director General (Strategy Group)
Director General (Skills Group)
Director General (Schools Group)
Director  (Further Education Oversight)
Deputy Director (Further Education Workforce) x 2 
Deputy Director  for Press Office
Deputy Director (Teaching workforce strategy)
Deputy Director (Skills Policy Analysis)
Deputy Director   (Teaching workforce strategy)
G6 (Further Education Workforce)
G6 (Skills Policy Analysis)
G6 (Teaching workforce strategy) X 2
G6 (Improvement, Support and Intervention)
G6 (Teacher Analysis Division)
G7 (Teaching workforce division)
G7 (Strategic comms) X 2
G7 (Regions and Providers)
G7 (Further Education Workforce) X 2
G7 (Teacher Analysis Division)
G7 (Governance)
SEO (Press office) X 2
SEO (Strategic comms)
SEO (Further Education Workforce) X 2