The reality of staffing in our schools selectedcharts.

Chart 2.1: Budget Settlements by Pupil Numbers

Pupils on Roll	Budget Settlement
	Better		Same		Worse		Total
	N	%	N	%	N	%	N	%
Primary
Higher	27	2.8	57	5.8	88	9.0	172	17.6
Same	36	3.7	199	20.3	284	29.0	519	53.0
Lower	26	2.7	82	8.4	181	18.5	289	29.5
Total	89	9.1	338	34.5	553	56.4	980	100.0
Secondary
Higher	29	7.9	45	12.2	111	30.2	185	50.3
Same	6	1.6	47	12.8	87	23.6	140	38.0
Lower	3	0.8	5	1.4	35	9.5	43	11.7
Total	38	10.3	97	26.4	233	63.3	368	100.0

1. Contingencycoefficients: primary = 0.140, P<0.001; secondary = 0.225, P<0.001.

Chart 2.2: Budget Settlements by Region

Region	Primary				Secondary
	Better		Worse		Better		Worse
	N	%	N	%	N	%	N	%
North East	4	8.3	31	64.6	4	18.2	10	45.5
North West	20	14.7	77	56.6	3	6.3	29	60.4
Yorks & Humber	6	6.1	55	56.1	3	9.1	22	66.7
East Midlands	10	11.6	48	55.8	8	25.0	18	56.3
West Midlands	12	12.9	44	47.3	6	14.3	21	50.0
East of England	4	3.7	77	71.3	4	9.1	35	79.5
Inner London	5	13.9	22	61.1	1	8.3	9	75.0
Outer London	2	3.4	37	63.8	1	3.8	24	92.3
South East	12	8.8	78	56.9	5	9.4	34	64.2
South West	6	6.2	56	56.6	3	9.1	21	63.6
Wales	8	9.9	28	34.6	0	0.0	10	43.5
Total	89	9.1	553	56.4	38	10.3	233	63.3

Chart 3.4: Reasons Post Available for Axing

Exit Mode	Primary		Secondary
	N	%	N	%
Compulsory Redundancy	32	8.5	15	3.8
Voluntary Redundancy	30	8.0	61	15.6
End of Fixed Term Contract	126	33.6	80	20.4
Resignation to Move to another School	81	21.6	120	30.6
Resignation/Retirement from Profession	106	28.3	116	29.6
Total	375	100.0	392	100.0

Chart 3.5: PostsLost by Region

Region	Primary			Secondary
	N	%	%National	N	%	%National
North East	25	6.7	5.0	21	5.4	6.0
North West	64	17.1	13.8	50	12.8	13.0
Yorks & Humber	31	8.3	9.9	30	7.7	8.9
East Midlands	22	5.9	8.8	29	7.4	8.8
West Midlands	31	8.3	9.8	37	9.4	11.4
East of England	53	14.1	10.7	50	12.8	11.6
Inner London	17	4.5	3.7	21	5.4	3.7
Outer London	31	8.3	5.9	38	9.7	7.5
South East	38	10.1	13.9	55	14.0	14.0
South West	33	8.8	10.1	42	10.7	9.0
Wales	30	8.0	8.3	19	4.8	6.2
Total	375	100.0	100.0	392	100.0	100.0

Table3.6: Resignees from Secondary Schools by Subject

Subject	Posts Lost		Staffing^1
	N	%	%
Maths	46	11.7	11.7
ICT	13	3.3	2.0
Science^2	53	13.5	14.9
Modern Languages	47	12.0	9.3
English^3	40	10.2	13.9
History	10	2.6	4.7
Geography	16	4.1	5.1
RE	7	1.8	3.2
Design & Tech^4	43	10.9	11.7
Art	11	2.8	4.1
Music	7	1.8	2.5
PE	11	2.8	7.1
Other^5	88	22.4	9.7
Total	392	100.0	100.0

1. Percentage tuition insubject as percentage of tuition taken from Table 29, page 30, Secondary Schools Curriculum and StaffingSurvey 1996/1997.

2. Includes physics,chemistry, biology, science and other science.

3. Includes drama.

4. Includes business studiesand home economics.

5. Includes SEN, Welsh, and other subjects. 37 SEN posts (9.4 per cent) and 20 posts inother subjects (5.1 per cent) were among those lost.

Chart 5.1: Impact on Teaching

Proposed Changes	Primary		Secondary
	N	%	N	%
Larger Classes	212	21.7	180	49.2
Less Non-Contact Time	307	31.4	81	22.1
More Teaching Outside Subject	41	4.2	155	42.3
Less Expensive Staff	160	16.4	83	22.7
Reduce Number of Sets	0	0.0	107	29.2
Fewer Lessons	39	4.0	84	23.0
More Temporary Staff	75	7.7	50	13.7
More Use of Teaching Assistants	185	18.9	1	0.3
Total^1	977	100.0	366	100.0

1. 3primary schools and 2 secondary schools did not respond to this question.