Education Scotland staff sick absence statistics from 2018 onwards: FOI release

Information requested

The total number of days of employee sickness for the years:

• 2018
• 2019
• 2020
• 2021 (to date)

Response

Please see the table below which provides the information you have requested. Although, it should be noted that this does not account for the number of employees we have.

Year	Total number of days of employee sickness
2018	1121
2019	1137
2020	1861
2021	2009

For information, the Annual reports and accounts which are published on our website provide the staff employed figures for the above years.

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