The government is looking to expand its free teacher jobs board to include other school staff, including business leaders and catering personnel.
The service, launched in 2019, allows schools to advertise teaching, leadership and classroom support staff vacancies online free, in a bid to save leaders some of the estimated £75 million spent each year on recruitment.
After initial slow take-up and moves to better promote the service to schools, a Department for Education official today claimed the service was now a “credible alternative to national paid job boards”.
Will Bourke, a stakeholder and engagement lead at the DfE, said 83 per cent of state schools were now signed up to the service, which was now the “largest source of primary school jobs” directly listed in England, and the second-largest for secondary.
