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
Minister for Skills
Minister for Schools standards
Minister for Early Education
Permanent Secretary
Special Advisor (x6)
Director General, Digital and Infrastructure Group
Director, Communications
Deputy Director, News and Social Media
Grade 6, Media officer (x2)
Grade 7, Media officer
HEO, Media officer (x2)
SEO, Media officer
Director General, Schools Group
Director, Candidates, Trainees, Strategy, Portfolio and Analysis Directorate
Deputy Director, Teaching Workforce Directorate
Deputy Director, Candidates, Trainees, Strategy, Portfolio and Analysis Directorate (x3)
Grade 6, Teaching Workforce Strategy and Briefing Unit
Grade 7, Teaching Workforce Strategy and Briefing Unit (x2)
Grade 6, Teachers' Pay and Conditions policy team
Grade 6, Teacher Returners, Teacher Equality and Diversity and Flexible Working Unit
Grade 6, Teacher Training and Recruitment
G7, Teacher Returners, Teacher Equality and Diversity and Flexible Working Unit (x2)
Teachers Analysis Division
Revenue Funding & Demographic Analysis Division (x2)
Director General of Digital and Infrastructure
Deputy Head of Profession for Statistics
Deputy Director (Skills Policy Analysis) (x2)
Grade 6 (Skills Policy Analysis)
Director of Further Education Oversight
Deputy Director (Further Education Workforce) (x2)
G6 (Further Educatoiun Workforce)
G7 (Further Education Workforce) (x5)
SEO (Further Education Workforce) (x4)

Date updated	Summary of update
4 June 2026	Corrected retention rates (pre-2010 figures) and PTRs (region/la level school type labels)
4 June 2026	First published

Updates to Reporting year 2025School workforce in England

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