The Conservative Party

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Cost of teacher retention crisis has hit £1.2bn a year

New research has found that rising staff vacancy rates in schools and a growing reliance on supply teachers are costing the taxpayer more than £1bn a year. The Telegraph reports that local authority-maintained schools and academies in England have spent £3.5bn on agency teachers over the past four years, covering long-term sick leave and filling vacancies, rising from £738m a year in 2019/20 to £1.2bn in 2022/23.

Pepe Di'Iasio, general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, said the previous Government "imposed years of below-inflation pay awards, inadequately funded the education system, and ratcheted up the expectations and accountability pressures on schools and colleges", and said the new Government "must build on this year’s improvement to pay and tackle high levels of systemic workload to ensure that teaching is the attractive career that it should be and that schools and colleges no longer have to make do and mend".
The Daily Telegraph

 

[BlueHammer85]

Cost of teacher retention crisis has hit £1.2bn a year

New research has found that rising staff vacancy rates in schools and a growing reliance on supply teachers are costing the taxpayer more than £1bn a year. The Telegraph reports that local authority-maintained schools and academies in England have spent £3.5bn on agency teachers over the past four years, covering long-term sick leave and filling vacancies, rising from £738m a year in 2019/20 to £1.2bn in 2022/23.

Pepe Di'Iasio, general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, said the previous Government "imposed years of below-inflation pay awards, inadequately funded the education system, and ratcheted up the expectations and accountability pressures on schools and colleges", and said the new Government "must build on this year’s improvement to pay and tackle high levels of systemic workload to ensure that teaching is the attractive career that it should be and that schools and colleges no longer have to make do and mend".
The Daily Telegraph

Another Tory disgrace

 

[The Future’s Blue!]

Another Tory disgrace

For the Tories, it wasn’t a disgrace, it was planned.

 

[Ifwecouldjust.......]

Cost of teacher retention crisis has hit £1.2bn a year

New research has found that rising staff vacancy rates in schools and a growing reliance on supply teachers are costing the taxpayer more than £1bn a year. The Telegraph reports that local authority-maintained schools and academies in England have spent £3.5bn on agency teachers over the past four years, covering long-term sick leave and filling vacancies, rising from £738m a year in 2019/20 to £1.2bn in 2022/23.

Pepe Di'Iasio, general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, said the previous Government "imposed years of below-inflation pay awards, inadequately funded the education system, and ratcheted up the expectations and accountability pressures on schools and colleges", and said the new Government "must build on this year’s improvement to pay and tackle high levels of systemic workload to ensure that teaching is the attractive career that it should be and that schools and colleges no longer have to make do and mend".
The Daily Telegraph

Strange how these organisations have been silent for 14 years but the moment Labour get in they are banging on about the underfunding expecting an immediate correction.

 

[Vic]

Strange how these organisations have been silent for 14 years but the moment Labour get in they are banging on about the underfunding expecting an immediate correction.

That's an odd take. They've not been silent during the 14 years of underfunding and real term pay cuts.

Last year:
“The fact that teacher vacancies have doubled in the past two years is bad enough. But this is only the tip of the iceberg in terms of a recruitment and retention crisis which is affecting virtually every school and college in the country. What we hear is that it is a constant struggle to fill vacancies which often requires readvertising for posts, filling gaps with supply staff, and using non-subject specialists to teach classes. All of this adds to the workload and pressure on school and college leaders, as well as existing staff, and it puts at risk educational provision for children. The reason for this desperate state of affairs is the fact that the government has implemented years of real-terms pay cuts, inadequate funding levels, and an eye-watering system of performance tables and Ofsted inspections, all of which is deterring recruits and driving out teachers. We cannot go on like this. Leaders, teachers, children and parents all deserve better from the government than complacency and neglect.”

 

[BrianW]

You could probably help the situation by scrapping Ofsted and SATs. Finland, one of the most successful education systems in Europe, has neither.

But then again, we don't want to copy them damned foreigners - unless they're Yanks of course.

 

[bluethrunthru]

Nick - I'm not a Tory - Ferrari proving again he is - it just oozes from his every pore

 

[The Light Was Yellow Sir]

Christopher ‘voted against upskirting ban Chope can’t vote for Bad Enoch because “she’s got children”. Brilliant…….

 

[bluenova]

Christopher ‘voted against upskirting ban Chope can’t vote for Bad Enoch because “she’s got children”. Brilliant…….

The interview was a grim watch. Basically dismissing the fact that Jenrick has 3 kids, because they're a bit older, and Chope has heard that Kemi spends a lot of time with her family! Tying himself in knots, trying to pretend it's not just because she's a woman.

 

[bluenova]

Not a fan of Jenrick, but this is spot on. Gove coming over all "I'm friends with both", "I respect both", "I look like a Tory too, so I understand", but in reality he knows exactly what he's doing, and wanted to get the "Tory boy" idea out there.

Gove is one of the most poisonous political influences of recent times, and it's good to see him called out for it.