The number of temporary teachers in Italian schools has doubled in eight years, going from 12% in 2015 to 24% of the total in 2023.
A constant growth, which has crossed different governments and majorities, to be evaluated, on average, almost two percentage points every school year, arriving at the current figure of 234,576 temporary teachers out of a total of 943,68 teachers in service. The ATA staff is no exception: one in five is precarious.
According to the analysis data relating to 2023, 21.64% of staff have a fixed-term contract.
Eight years ago the percentage was 12.75%.
These are some of the data contained in the Uil Scuola Rua Dossier which relates the data on fixed-term staff and the total staff in schools, over the period from 2015 to 2023. "The political situations to be addressed before any technical solution will necessarily have to arise from the acknowledgment that the recruitment system - including the numerous insolvency procedures - and the investment policies regarding precarious employment, implemented so far, have been unsuccessful - observes the general secretary of the Uil Scuola Rua, Giuseppe D'Aprile. The numbers say it - he reiterates D'Aprile commenting on the data in the dossier - with which politics must stop playing with respect for people, the precarious workers, who live a daily life of disorientation without any certainty for their future. The main path is represented by investments. We have provided the solutions. The right path is not to cut resources to make ends meet, but to invest in the school to guarantee stability for the staff concerned.
Only in this way can this critical issue be resolved.
A change of direction that must start from the awareness that, without the stabilization of the staff, the quality of the school and inevitably the fate of the new generations and, therefore, of this country will be jeopardized".
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