Nearly 100 schools that are planning to leave the Teachers' Pension Scheme have been named in a list seen by Tes.

Around 5,000 teachers could be removed from the TPS by their schools amid concerns over rising employer contribution costs, which increased by 43 per cent from September.

This has led to threats of strikes from teachers in independent schools which, unlike state schools, will not get any support from the government to cover the rises.

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Between September 2018 and November 2019, 97 schools notified the TPS of their intention to leave the scheme.

The 97 schools are listed in a response to a Freedom of Information request, provided by the Department for Education.

The list includes many small independent schools but also bigger institutions such as Plymouth College, which charges boarders more than £30,000 a year and lists Olympic diver Tom Daley, comedian Dawn French and former Labour leader Michael Foot among its alumni.

Also on the list is Wetherby School in London, where Prince Harry and Prince William spent their early school days at its Notting Hill site.

The NEU teaching union has said it knows of five more schools planning to leave the scheme, bringing the total to 102.

The union today warned schools considering leaving the scheme to be careful about what this could mean for teacher recruitment, saying it could put them on a "slippery slope".

Here is the list in full: