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1462810

registered interest
date	13/05/2022
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Teachers: Recruitment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps are being taken to support the (a) recruitment and (b) retention of teachers in (i) early years and (ii) primary education.
tabling member constituency	Wolverhampton South West
tabling member printed	Stuart Anderson
uin	1556
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/05/2022 answer text <p>The department recognises the huge contribution the early years and teaching workforces make to giving every child the best start in life, especially during this period of education recovery.</p><p>The department continues to work with the early years sector to build our understanding of our workforce needs, including any issues related to recruitment and retention. The government is committed to ensuring there are routes to graduate level qualifications, alongside wider professional development activity for the workforce.</p><p>As part of our work to support recovery from the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, the department announced up to £153 million in programmes to support workforce development. This includes increasing the number of places available for early years initial teacher training (EYITT). We are also developing new early years training routes.</p><p>The department recognises more needs to be done to ensure that primary teaching remains an attractive, high-status profession. At the heart of the Schools White Paper’s vision to boost literacy and numeracy outcomes is the need for an excellent teacher for every child. We aim to continue attracting and retaining the highly skilled teachers that every child needs. The Schools White Paper can be accessed here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/opportunity-for-all-strong-schools-with-great-teachers-for-your-child" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/opportunity-for-all-strong-schools-with-great-teachers-for-your-child</a>.</p><p>To do this, the department is taking action to improve teacher recruitment and retention by transforming the training and support we provide, not only to attract more people into teaching, but to encourage them to stay and thrive in the profession. Every teacher now has access to a golden thread of high-quality, evidence-based training and professional development at every stage of their career.</p><p>The department is creating an entitlement to at least three years of structured training, support, and professional development for all new teachers, bringing teaching into line with other prestigious professions such as law, accountancy, and medicine. Underpinning this is the new Initial Teacher Training (ITT) Core Content Framework and the Early Career Framework (ECF). Together, these ensure that new teachers will benefit from at least three years of evidence-based training, across ITT and into their induction. We also remain committed to increasing teacher starting salaries to £30,000 to make teaching an attractive graduate option.</p><p>Beyond the first few years of teaching, our priority is to help all teachers and school leaders to continuously develop their expertise throughout their careers so every child in every classroom in every school gets the best start in life. Teachers can now benefit from an updated suite of National Professional Qualifications (NPQs). Aimed at those who want to develop expertise in high-quality teaching practice, to those leading multiple schools across trusts, these professional development programmes are now free to access for those eligible to apply.</p><p>Teacher retention is key to ensuring effective teacher supply and quality, and we are taking action to support teachers to stay in the profession and thrive. The department has published a range of resources to help address teacher workload and wellbeing and support schools to introduce flexible working practices.</p> answering member constituency Worcester answering member printed Mr Robin Walker question first answered 23/05/2022 10:14:33 answering member 4091 label Biography information for Mr Robin Walker
tabling member	4742 label Biography information for Stuart Anderson

1403876

registered interest
date	18/01/2022
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Teachers: Recruitment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much schools have paid to supply agencies to bring retired and ex-teachers back to teaching to cover for covid-19-related absences in (a) November 2021 and (b) December 2021.
tabling member constituency	Portsmouth South
tabling member printed	Stephen Morgan
uin	106847
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/01/2022 answer text <p>Schools have continued to receive their budgets in full throughout the COVID-19 outbreak regardless of periods of full or partial closure.</p><p>In addition, the department has re-introduced the COVID-19 workforce fund to provide financial support to eligible schools and colleges for additional staff absence costs incurred from 22 November until the February spring half term in 2022. The fund is available to support schools and colleges facing the greatest staffing and funding pressures to continue to deliver face-to-face, high quality education to all pupils.</p><p>School funding remains one of the department’s key priorities, which is why this government continues to deliver year on year, real terms per pupil increases to school funding with the total core school budget increasing to £56.8 billion by 2024-25.</p><p>In 2022-23 alone core schools funding will increase by £4 billion compared to 2021-22, a 5% real terms per pupil boost. This will help schools rise to the challenges of COVID-19, increase teacher pay, and meet the cost of the Health and Social Care Levy, while continuing their work to raise attainment.</p><p>Local authority and school expenditure is published annually, with the latest available data being the 2020-21 financial year, and is available here: <a href="https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/la-and-school-expenditure" target="_blank">https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/la-and-school-expenditure</a>.</p><p>Please note that this publication does not include academies.</p><p>School level data (including academies) is available at the schools financial benchmarking website, with the latest available data being the 2020-21 financial year for local authority maintained schools and the 2019/20 academic year for academies (to be updated to the 2020/21 academic year in spring 2022): <a href="https://schools-financial-benchmarking.service.gov.uk/Help/DataSources" target="_blank">https://schools-financial-benchmarking.service.gov.uk/Help/DataSources</a>.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Worcester answering member printed Mr Robin Walker grouped question UIN 106848 106849 question first answered 21/01/2022 17:58:37 answering member 4091 label Biography information for Mr Robin Walker
tabling member	4653 label Biography information for Stephen Morgan

1403878

registered interest
date	18/01/2022
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Teachers: Recruitment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate his Department has made of the total amount of funding schools will have pay to supply agencies to bring retired and ex-teachers back to teaching to cover for covid-19-absences in (a) January, (b) February and (c) March 2022.
tabling member constituency	Portsmouth South
tabling member printed	Stephen Morgan
uin	106848
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/01/2022 answer text <p>Schools have continued to receive their budgets in full throughout the COVID-19 outbreak regardless of periods of full or partial closure.</p><p>In addition, the department has re-introduced the COVID-19 workforce fund to provide financial support to eligible schools and colleges for additional staff absence costs incurred from 22 November until the February spring half term in 2022. The fund is available to support schools and colleges facing the greatest staffing and funding pressures to continue to deliver face-to-face, high quality education to all pupils.</p><p>School funding remains one of the department’s key priorities, which is why this government continues to deliver year on year, real terms per pupil increases to school funding with the total core school budget increasing to £56.8 billion by 2024-25.</p><p>In 2022-23 alone core schools funding will increase by £4 billion compared to 2021-22, a 5% real terms per pupil boost. This will help schools rise to the challenges of COVID-19, increase teacher pay, and meet the cost of the Health and Social Care Levy, while continuing their work to raise attainment.</p><p>Local authority and school expenditure is published annually, with the latest available data being the 2020-21 financial year, and is available here: <a href="https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/la-and-school-expenditure" target="_blank">https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/la-and-school-expenditure</a>.</p><p>Please note that this publication does not include academies.</p><p>School level data (including academies) is available at the schools financial benchmarking website, with the latest available data being the 2020-21 financial year for local authority maintained schools and the 2019/20 academic year for academies (to be updated to the 2020/21 academic year in spring 2022): <a href="https://schools-financial-benchmarking.service.gov.uk/Help/DataSources" target="_blank">https://schools-financial-benchmarking.service.gov.uk/Help/DataSources</a>.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Worcester answering member printed Mr Robin Walker grouped question UIN 106847 106849 question first answered 21/01/2022 17:58:37 answering member 4091 label Biography information for Mr Robin Walker
tabling member	4653 label Biography information for Stephen Morgan

1403879

registered interest
date	18/01/2022
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Teachers: Recruitment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate his Department has made of the total cost to schools as a proportion of the public funding they receive of rehiring retired and ex-teachers to cover for teacher absences due to covid-19.
tabling member constituency	Portsmouth South
tabling member printed	Stephen Morgan
uin	106849
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/01/2022 answer text <p>Schools have continued to receive their budgets in full throughout the COVID-19 outbreak regardless of periods of full or partial closure.</p><p>In addition, the department has re-introduced the COVID-19 workforce fund to provide financial support to eligible schools and colleges for additional staff absence costs incurred from 22 November until the February spring half term in 2022. The fund is available to support schools and colleges facing the greatest staffing and funding pressures to continue to deliver face-to-face, high quality education to all pupils.</p><p>School funding remains one of the department’s key priorities, which is why this government continues to deliver year on year, real terms per pupil increases to school funding with the total core school budget increasing to £56.8 billion by 2024-25.</p><p>In 2022-23 alone core schools funding will increase by £4 billion compared to 2021-22, a 5% real terms per pupil boost. This will help schools rise to the challenges of COVID-19, increase teacher pay, and meet the cost of the Health and Social Care Levy, while continuing their work to raise attainment.</p><p>Local authority and school expenditure is published annually, with the latest available data being the 2020-21 financial year, and is available here: <a href="https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/la-and-school-expenditure" target="_blank">https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/la-and-school-expenditure</a>.</p><p>Please note that this publication does not include academies.</p><p>School level data (including academies) is available at the schools financial benchmarking website, with the latest available data being the 2020-21 financial year for local authority maintained schools and the 2019/20 academic year for academies (to be updated to the 2020/21 academic year in spring 2022): <a href="https://schools-financial-benchmarking.service.gov.uk/Help/DataSources" target="_blank">https://schools-financial-benchmarking.service.gov.uk/Help/DataSources</a>.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Worcester answering member printed Mr Robin Walker grouped question UIN 106847 106848 question first answered 21/01/2022 17:58:37 answering member 4091 label Biography information for Mr Robin Walker
tabling member	4653 label Biography information for Stephen Morgan

1402967

registered interest
date	14/01/2022
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Teachers: Recruitment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of former teachers who responded to the Government's appeal for support on 16 December 2021 had left the profession (a) after 16 June 2021, (b) between 16 December 2020 and 15 June 2021, (c) between 16 December 2015 and 15 December 2020, (d) between 16 December 2010 and 15 December 2020 and (e) before 16 December 2010.
tabling member constituency	Houghton and Sunderland South
tabling member printed	Bridget Phillipson
uin	104314
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/01/2022 answer text <p>On 12 January 2022, the department published initial data from a sample of supply agencies gathered between 20 December 2021 and 7 January 2022. This showed that 485 former teachers have signed up with supply agencies, and over 100 Teach First alumni have also expressed interest in returning to the classroom.</p><p>Given the size of the sample, the true number of sign-ups since the call was launched will be larger. Full details of the data release can be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/number-of-ex-teachers-joining-the-school-workforce-2021-to-2022" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/number-of-ex-teachers-joining-the-school-workforce-2021-to-2022</a>.</p><p>The department directed the call for ex teachers through employment agencies as they are best placed to match the supply that is coming forward with the demand that is there from schools. Using employment agencies also reduces the administrative burden of temporary recruitment from our schools.</p><p>We need to balance the need for data with the burden we place on those collating it. Therefore, we have not asked agencies to collect data such as how long ago people worked in schools.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Worcester answering member printed Mr Robin Walker question first answered 19/01/2022 17:45:21 answering member 4091 label Biography information for Mr Robin Walker
tabling member	4046 label Biography information for Bridget Phillipson

1402833

registered interest
date	13/01/2022
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Teachers: Recruitment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, in the context of former teachers who have returned to support schools put since 16 December 2021, if he will publish a list of the schools in which such former teachers were working on (a) 6 January 2022 and (b) 13 January 2022; if he will set out for each of those schools in which one or more such returned former teachers were working; and how many returned teachers were working in each of those schools.
tabling member constituency	Houghton and Sunderland South
tabling member printed	Bridget Phillipson
uin	103539
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/01/2022 answer text <p>On 12 January 2022, the department published initial data from a sample of supply agencies gathered between 20 December 2021 and 7 January 2022. This showed that 485 former teachers have signed up with supply agencies, and over 100 Teach First alumni have also expressed interest in returning to the classroom.</p><p>Given the size of the sample, the true number of sign-ups since the call was launched will be larger. Full details of the data release can be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/number-of-ex-teachers-joining-the-school-workforce-2021-to-2022" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/number-of-ex-teachers-joining-the-school-workforce-2021-to-2022</a>.</p><p>The department remains in close contact with supply agencies to monitor the interest they receive to help schools during this time. We will keep the need for further data collections under review.</p><p>The department needs to balance the need for data with the burden we place on those collating it, our focus has been on the numbers signing up to agencies. Every single teacher that responds to our call can make a vital difference to children and young people by keeping them in face-to-face education.</p><p>Even if the teachers who have already come forward between 20 December and 7 January only taught one lesson each, that could support more than 12,000 pupils[1], and if they signed up for one full week, that could equate to more than 13,000 teaching hours[2].</p><p>[1] based on an average secondary class size estimate taken from the latest School Workforce Census Survey: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/school-workforce-in-england-november-2020" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/school-workforce-in-england-november-2020</a>.</p><p>[2] Teaching hours is based on average teaching time for full time teachers and middle leaders from the 2019 Teacher Workload Survey: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/teacher-workload-survey-2019" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/teacher-workload-survey-2019</a>.</p> answering member constituency Worcester answering member printed Mr Robin Walker question first answered 18/01/2022 16:51:36 answering member 4091 label Biography information for Mr Robin Walker
tabling member	4046 label Biography information for Bridget Phillipson

1400105

registered interest
date	05/01/2022
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Teachers: Recruitment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much the Government spent on the campaign to bring retired and ex-teachers back to teaching to cover covid-19 absences in December 2021.
tabling member constituency	Twickenham
tabling member printed	Munira Wilson
uin	98521
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/01/2022 answer text <p>As of 5 January, the spend relating to marketing and communications in support of the national appeal for former teachers to return to the profession is £3,882.69. This amount consists of:</p><ul><li>Design work for a toolkit of assets to be used by partners of the department: £2,227.80.</li><li>Paid Search Advertising: £1,654.89.</li></ul> answering member constituency Worcester answering member printed Mr Robin Walker question first answered 10/01/2022 15:15:28 answering member 4091 label Biography information for Mr Robin Walker
tabling member	4776 label Biography information for Munira Wilson

1400106

registered interest
date	05/01/2022
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Teachers: Recruitment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many retired and ex-teachers were recruited back into teaching in (a) December 2021 and (b) January 2022.
tabling member constituency	Twickenham
tabling member printed	Munira Wilson
uin	98522
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/01/2022 answer text <p>The department is extremely grateful to all the teachers who are responding to our call to return temporarily to the classroom to support schools whilst cases of the Omicron variant continue to rise.</p><p>On 12 January the department published initial data from a sample of supply agencies gathered between 20 December 2021 and 7 January 2022. This showed that 485 former teachers have signed up with supply agencies, and over 100 Teach First alumni have also expressed interest in returning to the classroom.</p><p>Given the size of the sample, the true number of sign-ups since the call was launched will be larger.</p><p>Full details of the data release can be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/number-of-ex-teachers-joining-the-school-workforce-2021-to-2022" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/number-of-ex-teachers-joining-the-school-workforce-2021-to-2022</a>.</p> answering member constituency Worcester answering member printed Mr Robin Walker question first answered 17/01/2022 16:50:28 answering member 4091 label Biography information for Mr Robin Walker
tabling member	4776 label Biography information for Munira Wilson