Thousands more teachers are leaving the profession as the pandemic’s effect wears off, new figures suggest, with vacancies at their highest level in more than a decade.
Official census data on the school workforce, collected last November and published today, also shows more newly qualified teachers leaving within a year.
It also shows heads and teachers went into the current cost-of-living squeeze – with inflation now at 9 per cent – off the back of just 0.8 per cent and 1.4 per cent annual rises in average pay, respectively.
