The case for stability
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144 completed TIS by June 2025: 75 primary and 69 secondary.
Authority response; allocation/non-completion referred to an earlier request.
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Teachers achieving permanency: 2021/2022: 25, 2022/2023: 38, 2023/2024: 32
Archived dashboard status (April 2026): Successful; no inference is made about teachers outside the reported process.
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The council recorded 8, 14, 12, 12 and 10 supply teachers deployed Monday to Friday during 9–13 September 2024.
Successful response; counts are authority-specific.
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Unsuccessful interview applications: 2021/22: 2970, 2022/23: 3421, 2023/24: 3320
Archived dashboard status (April 2026): Successful; response says figures cover all listed teaching post categories.
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Scottish Government reported per-probationer TIS costs of £11,523-£48,711 and £90,000 annual GTCS administration funding.
Range, not a standard unit cost.
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The response dated 20 November 2024 says that it was not asked to increase its teacher-training intake quota for the 2024/25 academic year
Archived dashboard status (April 2026): Successful; any redacted supporting communications remain member-only.
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Research by council
See which requests and findings are available for each council. The map shows archive coverage, not council performance.
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Island insets are shown at different scales.
● All catalogue requests have files◐ Some requests have metadata only
ONS council boundaries, December 2024. ONS December 2024 boundaries; simplified to 450 metres for display. Island insets use different scales. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2024. Contains National Statistics data © Crown copyright and database right 2024. Open Government Licence v3.0.
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What follows the induction year? See how placements lead into teaching work.
160 requests · 45 verified findings02Permanent, temporary and casual work: see what councils record about security in teaching.
129 requests · 33 verified findings03Applications, interviews and vacant posts, with each measure explained in context.
96 requests · 2 verified findings04How councils recruit and use supply teachers, including the census-week snapshot.
64 requests · 11 verified findings05Class organisation, pupil–teacher ratios and the staff available to teach.
64 requests · 6 verified findings06The decisions, correspondence and funding behind teacher numbers.
259 requests · 11 verified findings07University intake, course provision and the link between training and the workforce.
32 requests · 4 verified findingsScottish Government statistics
Our aim is stability across teaching contracts. Permanent and temporary are official statistical categories; these figures do not capture every aspect of security, such as predictable hours, income or continuity between placements.
2024/25 cohort · All sectors
Employment recorded in September 2025, following the Teacher Induction Scheme.
in a full-time permanent post
538 of 2,294 teachersShare of the cohort
In a full-time permanent post
2024/2523.5% in a full-time permanent post
| Cohort | Census | Total | Full-time permanent | Part-time permanent | Full-time temporary | Part-time temporary | Other |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019/20 | 2020 | 3076 | 37.8% | 1.4% | 42.5% | 3.2% | 15.1% |
| 2020/21 | 2021 | 3123 | 30.9% | 1.4% | 42.0% | 6.1% | 19.6% |
| 2021/22 | 2022 | 3218 | 32.7% | 1.3% | 30.5% | 5.8% | 29.7% |
| 2022/23 | 2023 | 2892 | 28.8% | 1.5% | 33.2% | 7.2% | 29.3% |
| 2023/24 | 2024 | 2673 | 24.9% | 1.8% | 30.5% | 8.3% | 34.6% |
| 2024/25 | 2025 | 2294 | 23.5% | 1.3% | 34.2% | 10.1% | 31.0% |
Source: Scottish Government, Teacher census supplementary statistics 2025 ↗ · Table 1.6.
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Campaign research
Our investigations sit alongside official statistics. Each has a named source, a defined scope and its own context.
A government letter obtained by the campaign through FOI informed reporting on exemptions in the teacher-numbers deal.
Read the 10 December 2024 letter in Enclosure 10.1, pages 31–33, of a later government FOI release.
Read the source letterOn 1 May 2025, the campaign's probationer research was raised at First Minister's Questions.
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Read the official recordNineteen complete accounts from the campaign's original story collection describe what insecure employment feels like.
Individual experiences, published in November 2024, rather than a representative survey.
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