Ministers should widen the scope of their recruitment and retention strategy to cater for support staff, a new report has said.
The government promised this week to update its key teacher workforce plan, first published in 2019, “this winter”. This would include setting out “priorities for the coming years”.
But the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER) said ministers should expand its scope into a wider education workforce strategy.
The recommendation was in a new report, published today, showing most headteachers had teaching assistants who were taking up additional employment during the cost-of-living crisis.
