Fears over the impact of the cost-of-living crisis on teachers have intensified after a poll suggested one in six teachers are now working second jobs.
Figures published by Teacher Tapp show a “substantial jump” of 42 per cent in the proportion of educators reporting they were doing other work outside their day job.
The organisation, which now polls over 10,000 teachers and leaders daily, asks its subscribers each January if they had earned cash “outside education in the preceding 12 months”.
Between 2019 and 2022, the proportion answering yes remained at about 12 per cent. But this year that increased to 17 per cent.
