196501-437417 FOI HR

Under the Freedom of Information Act, please can you provide me with information on: 
 
For the latest available date, and for local authority maintained schools in the local authority area, what were: 
The total of funded teaching assistant posts (inclusive of both filled and unfilled posts);

(a) The total number of unfilled teaching assistant vacancies;

(b) The teaching assistant vacancy rate; and
 
(c) The date for which these figures are valid.  

In each case, I would be grateful if the definition of 'teaching assistant' could be treated as consistent with the Department for Education's Workforce Census definition (ie. inclusive of HLTAs).

Please can the figures for (a), (b), and (c) be provided on both a headcount and an FTE basis, if possible.