Research and analysis

School and college voice: omnibus surveys for 2025 to 2026

Findings from regular surveys of school and college teachers and leaders.

Applies to England

Documents

School and college voice: October 2025

School and college voice technical report: 2025 to 2026 academic year

Details

The school and college voice is a regular online survey. It gathers views within the academic year from senior leaders and classroom teachers in state-funded primary, secondary and special schools, and in colleges.

The survey covers a wide range of topics related to the Department for Education’s (DfE) aims, priorities and policies. The topics include:

  • staff wellbeing
  • pupil behaviour
  • staff absence
  • teacher training
  • recruitment and retention
  • pupil safeguarding
  • special educational needs and disability (SEND)
  • curriculum design

More detail on the methodology is available in ‘School and college voice technical report: 2025 to 2026 academic year’.

The zip file contains the survey data tables.

School and college voice: omnibus surveys for 2024 to 2025 reports are also available. Find other omnibus survey reports in the Omnibus surveys collection.

Updates to this page

Published 26 February 2026

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