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<p>The full-time equivalent (FTE) number of contracted staff whose role is defined
as that of ‘pastoral support’ or of ‘learning mentor’, employed by state funded primary
and state funded secondary schools in England, November 2010 to 2016 is provided in
the table attached.</p><p>Information for ‘educational psychologists’ is not available
by phase. These figures may <ins class="ministerial">also </ins>undercount the actual
number of educational psychologists<ins class="ministerial"> in England and do not
provide a comparable national year-on-year</ins> <ins class="ministerial">series </ins>because
it is based on a varying percentage of local councils returns in each year (between
68 and 74 per cent).</p><p> </p><p>Data is not available for ‘counsellors’.</p><p>
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