Gender of Head, Deputy Head and Assistant Teachers (FOI)

Request

A

What is the percentage of female and male deputy headteachers in Jersey primary schools in 2022 and the trend for the last five years?

B

What is the percentage of female and male deputy headteachers in Jersey secondary schools n 2022 and the trend for the last five years? 

C

What is the percentage of female and male assistant headteachers Jersey primary schools n 2022 and the trend for the last five  years?

D

What is the percentage of female and male assistant headteachers in Jersey secondary schools in 2022 and the trend for the last five years?

E

What is the percentage of female and male headteachers in Jersey Primary schools in 2022 and the trend for the last five years?

F

What is the percentage of female and male headteachers in Jersey secondary schools n 2022 and the trend for the last five years?

G

What is the percentage of female and male headteachers overall in Jersey schools n 2022 and the trend for the last five years?

H

What is the percentage of female and male deputy headteachers overall in Jersey secondary schools n 2022 and the trend for the last five years?

I

What is the percentage of female and male assistant headteachers overall in Jersey secondary schools n 2022 and the trend for the last five years?

Response

Please note: For all questions that request percentages, the Government of Jersey does not hold the information in a percentage form. In reference to this, and all questions that request a trend analysis: A Scheduled Public Authority is not required to manipulate and create new data sets. A trend analysis cannot therefore be provided. Article 3 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 applies. 

A

The headcount numbers for the years requested have been provided. All data was extracted as of the 31 December of each year in question. Please see the table 1 of the attached document, that shows headcount broken down by gender of individuals in relation to each question for the years 2018 - 2022.

B

Please see table 2 of the attached document which shows the headcount broken down by gender of individuals with the role title “Deputy Head Teacher” in secondary schools. Where the figures relate to low numbers of individuals, disclosure control has been applied to protect the privacy of individuals. Numbers fewer than five are represented as “<5”. Article 25 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law) 2011 has been applied.

C

There were no individuals with the role title “Assistant Head Teacher” in primary schools in 2018. Please note the Government of Jersey no longer uses the role title "Assistant Headteacher" within its HR Systems.

D

Please see table 4 which shows the headcount broken down by gender of individuals with the role title “Assistant Head Teacher” in secondary schools in 2018. Where the response is relating to low numbers of individuals, disclosure control has been applied to protect the privacy of individuals. Numbers fewer than 5 are represented as “<5”. Article 25 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law) 2011 has been applied. Please note the Government of Jersey no longer uses the role title "Assistant Headteacher" within its HR Systems.

E

Please see table 5 of the attached document which shows the headcount broken down by gender of individuals with the role title “Head Teacher” in primary schools. Where the response is relating to low numbers of individuals, disclosure control has been applied to protect the privacy of individuals. Numbers fewer than five are represented as “<5”. Article 25 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law) 2011 has been applied.

F

Please see table 6 of the attached document which shows the headcount broken down by gender of individuals with the role title “Head Teacher” in secondary schools. 

G

The information requested can be calculated using the data provided in tables 5 and 6 for the gender of individuals with the role title “Headteacher” across primary and secondary schools.

H

The information requested can be calculated using the data provided in tables 1 and 2 for the gender of individuals with the role title “Deputy Headteacher” across primary and secondary schools.

I

Please refer to the response to question C above.

Tables 1 to 6.pdf

Note: The data provided relates to the following Primary and Secondary Schools. The Government of Jersey does not hold data related to teachers in the island's private schools. Article 3 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 applies.  

Articles applied

Article 3 - Meaning of “information held by a public authority”

For the purposes of this Law, information is held by a public authority if –

(a)     it is held by the authority, otherwise than on behalf of another person; or

(b)     it is held by another person on behalf of the authority.

Article 25 - Personal information

(1) Information is absolutely exempt information if it constitutes personal data of which the applicant is the data subject as defined in the Data Protection (Jersey) Law 2018.

(2) Information is absolutely exempt information if –

(a) it constitutes personal data of which the applicant is not the data subject as defined in the Data Protection (Jersey) Law 2018; and

(b) its supply to a member of the public would contravene any of the data protection principles, as defined in that Law.

3)      In determining for the purposes of this Article whether the lawfulness principle in Article 8(1)(a) of the Data Protection (Jersey) Law 2018 would be contravened by the disclosure of information, paragraph 5(1) of Schedule 2 to that Law (legitimate interests) is to be read as if sub-paragraph (b) (which disapplies the provision where the controller is a public authority) were omitted.