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<p>There are now over 468,000 full time equivalent (FTE) teachers in state funded
schools in England, which is an increase of 2,800 (less than 1%) since last year,
and an increase of 27,000 (6%) since 2010. This makes it the highest FTE of teachers
since the School Workforce Census began in 2010. Just over two thirds of teachers
who qualified five years ago are still teaching.</p><p>The Department’s reforms are
aimed at increasing teacher recruitment and at ensuring teachers across England stay
and thrive in the profession.</p><p>The Department announced a financial incentives
package worth up to £181 million for those starting initial teacher training (ITT)
in the 2023/24 academic year. The Department is providing bursaries worth up to £27,000
and scholarships worth up to £29,000 to encourage trainees to apply to train in key
secondary subjects such as mathematics, physics, chemistry, and computing.</p><p>The
Department provides a Levelling Up Premium worth up to £3,000 annually for mathematics,
physics, chemistry and computing teachers in the first five years of their careers
who work in disadvantaged schools nationally, including within Education Investment
Areas (EIAs). The eligibility criteria and list of eligible schools are available
at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/levelling-up-premium-payments-for-teachers"
target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/guidance/levelling-up-premium-payments-for-teachers</a>.</p><p>The
Department has also raised starting salaries outside London by 8.9% to £28,000 and
remains committed to the Government’s ambition of delivering £30,000 starting salaries
to attract talented people to teaching.</p><p>The Department has created an entitlement
to at least three years of structured training, support, and professional development
for all new teachers, underpinned by the ITT Core Content Framework and the Early
Career Framework (ECF). Further information on the ITT Core Content Framework can
be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/initial-teacher-training-itt-core-content-framework"
target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/initial-teacher-training-itt-core-content-framework</a>.
Further information on the ECF can be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/early-career-framework"
target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/early-career-framework</a>.
Together, these ensure that new teachers will benefit from at least three years of
evidence based training, across ITT and into their induction.</p><p>To support retention,
the Department has worked with the education sector and published a range of resources
to help address staff workload and wellbeing and to support schools to introduce flexible
working practices. This includes the workload reduction toolkit and the Education
Staff Wellbeing Charter. Further information on the workload reduction toolkit can
be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/school-workload-reduction-toolkit"
target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/guidance/school-workload-reduction-toolkit</a>.
Further information on the Education Staff Wellbeing charter can be found here: <a
href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/education-staff-wellbeing-charter" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/guidance/education-staff-wellbeing-charter</a>.
More than 2,600 schools have signed up to the Charter so far.</p>
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