A dashboard showing teacher recruitment and retention challenges in each English local authority area has been created by the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER).
It comes as the school staffing crisis looks set to deepen. Last week, figures showed the government had missed its target for recruitment of new secondary school teachers by 41 per cent this year, while fewer primary teachers were recruited than needed.
Among the other new insights offered by NFER’s dashboard, which was funded by the Nuffield Foundation charitable trust, is the acute issues faced in schools with a higher than average proportion of children receiving free school meals (FSM).
NFER used government data including the school workforce census and provider-level initial teacher training (ITT) statistics to create the tool.
School workforce lead Jack Worth said it would “support local and national decision-makers to take action to address teacher shortages in areas struggling the most”.
