The Department for Education will increase teacher incentives in most subjects next year, but its spend on getting more trainees into the classroom remains far behind pre-pandemic levels.
Overall spending on teacher incentives in 2024-25 will rise to £196 million, up from £181 million this year. However, this is still £54 million less than the £250 million spent in 2020.
Incentives were heavily slashed when Covid prompted a spike in interest in teaching, which turned out to be shortlived.
The government missed its secondary recruitment targets by 40 per cent last year, and is expected to miss them by around half this year.
