Number of school teaching assistants (FOI)

Request

How many teaching assistants are employed:

A

In total?

B

By each individual school on the island?

Response

A

638.

B

Please note:

• The information was taken from data captured on the 31 January 2022
• If an individual has two or more contracts, they have been considered as two (or more people) for the calculations for each school (1b)
  
• The information represents only Government of Jersey maintained and fee-paying maintained schools. It does not include the private schools: St George's Preparatory, St Michael's Preparatory, FCJ Primary, St Christopher's Primary, Helvetia House School, Beaulieu Convent School and De La Salle College 
• Where numbers are fewer than five, to avoid identification of individuals, the exact figure has not been stated. Article 25 (Personal Information) of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 has been applied. 

Article applied

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.