In short supply: Cover costs soar as teacher shortages and illness bite Investigation: Schools sound the alarm as finances hit by education’s shrinking workforce
£3k teachers retention bonuses: How they will work Up to 7,000 early-career computing, maths, physics and chemistry teachers in 2,500 schools will receive retention bonuses
DfE looks to ex-teachers to fill Covid staffing gaps Leaders also asked to ‘use their own networks to encourage sign-up’
National insurance rise: Government to ‘compensate’ public sector employers The government plans to “compensate” schools and other public sector employers for national insurance contribution increases under new health and social care reforms. Prime minister Boris Johnson today set out plans to increase national insurance contributions by both employees and employers by 1.25 percentage points from next April. The so-called “health and social care levy”, […]
School staff in Devon get £10 each as Covid thank you gesture A council with a £50 million deficit has given its schools around £65,000 to spend on staff as a “token of appreciation” for their hard work and resilience during the pandemic. Devon County Council (DCC) has awarded its schools £10 per employee to spend “in whatever way they think best to thank teaching and support […]
Teacher departures down 17% during pandemic, plus 4 more school workforce findings Teaching’s increasingly young and diverse workforce continued to grow last year as staff departures slumped during Covid, new figures show. The Department for Education published its annual ‘school worforce in England’ data on Thursday, based on the November 2020 school workforce census. Here are the key findings. 1. Teacher numbers rise as staff stay […]
Ofsted and DfE staff nabbed for Brexit planning Civil servants from Ofsted have been redeployed to help prepare for a no-deal Brexit, with more staff set to follow, Schools Week understands. It follows concerns that civil servants from the Department for Education could be transferred from as early as next week. Schools Week understands the department has been looking at what schools will do if […]