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Long term sickness absence - FTE (651) Metric type
- Description
- Formula: Short term sickness Absence (FTE days per employee) is calculated by taking the total number of days absence (long term) over financial year and divinding by the average number of FTE over the financial year Definition - Long-term absence: over 20 days/more than one calendar month (in working days). The sickness absence calculation should include all staff (including school based support staff), but exclude teachers and all staff in fire services. It should be calculated for the financial year (beginning on the 1 April and ending on the 31 March).Definition: Long-term absence - over 20 days/more than one calendar month (in working days) The numerator is defined as the total number of working days lost due to sickness absence, including industrial injury, irrespective of whether this is self-certified, certified by a GP or long-term. For part-time staff, the authority should calculate the FTE for both the numerator and denominator on a consistent basis. Include all permanent local authority employees, including teachers, staff employed in schools and staff employed in DLOs and DSOs. Exclude agency staff and staff on maternity or paternity leave. However, temporary staff and staff on fixed term contracts who have been employed by the authority for over a year should be considered permanent. The denominator is the average number of FTEs employed during the financial year.
- Help text
- ationale:
This indicator is collected through the Local Government Workforce Survey. The question is: 'Please complete the following table and provide the long term sickness absence rate for the current financial year?'
Definition:
Formula -
Short term sickness Absence (FTE days per employee) is calculated by taking the total number of days absence (long term) over financial year and divinding by the average number of FTE over the financial year
Definition -
Long-term absence: over 20 days/more than one calendar month (in working days).
The sickness absence calculation should include all staff (including school based support staff), but exclude teachers and all staff in fire services. It should be calculated for the financial year (beginning on the 1 April and ending on the 31 March).
Further details:
This annual survey is conducted by LGA Research and Information. The survey is sent to all heads of human resources in England between June and September. Please note the response rate of this survey varies from year to year, and further information can be found at http://new.lga.gov.uk/lga/core/page.do?pageId=1254939
Additionally, not all authorities consent to share their data in LG Inform. Employees covered by the questionnaire include all directly employed staff (including school based support staff) and excludes teachers and all staff in fire services.
- Modified
- 26 Jun 2020
- Data last updated
- 20 Sep 2023
- Short label
- Sickness absence, long term (FTE)
- Status
- Live
- Output precision
- 1
- Polarity
- a low value is good
- Measure
- Days
- Dataset
- Long term sickness absence - fte
- Collection
- Workforce Survey
- Source
- Local Government Association
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