To ask the Minister of Education to detail the number of new teaching posts in (i) controlled; and (ii) voluntary sector primary and post-primary schools, in each of the last three years.

The Department of Education is not the employer of teachers and therefore does not hold this information.

However, the number of new teaching posts over the last 3 academic years in the controlled sector has been provided by the five Education and Library Boards (ELBs), as the employing authorities for controlled schools and is shown in the table below. Neither the Department nor the ELBs hold this information for the Voluntary Grammar schools, as each school is an employer in their own right.

The Delivering Social Change Signature Programme to improve literacy and numeracy aimed to provide employment for recent graduate teachers, and support for pupils who are at risk of underachievement in communication and using maths at Key stage 2 and in English and maths at GCSE. To date 63 teachers have been placed in controlled post-primary schools since September 2013 on a two year fixed contract.