Recruitment and Retention of teachers

The Education Secretary has published a new integrated Recruitment and Retention strategy to boost teacher numbers and make sure that teaching remains an attractive and rewarding profession.

Key facts:

  • The Government has set out a number of measures to give teachers more early career support, reduce teacher workload and extend opportunities for flexible working which include: 
  • Simplifying the process of applying to become a teacher and reforming the bursary system to include retention-based payments so that more teachers can be encouraged to stay where they are. 
  • The creation of the Early Career Framework, a new two year package of training and support for teachers at the beginning of their career, backed by £130 million year. 
  • Helping schools to reduce teacher workload, by stripping away time consuming and unnecessary tasks like data entry, as well as simplifying accountability system to clarify when a school maybe subject to intervention. 

Why this matters:

There are no good schools without good teachers which is why it must remain an attractive career.

This ambitious strategy commits to supporting teachers – particularly those at the start of their career – to focus on what actually matters, the pupils in their classrooms.

By working alongside Ofsted and the unions, we have developed this new strategy which will enable teachers to spend more time focusing on the children and remain motivated to stay where they are.

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