The Department for Education (DfE) has released its teacher recruitment and retention strategy (external link). The aim of the strategy is to ensure that teaching continues to be an attractive and rewarding profession by tackling the most prominent concerns and professional obstacles faced by teachers and school leaders.
The strategy focuses on four priority areas:
- ensuring that schools provide a supportive culture and reduce workload;
- providing support for teachers early in their careers;
- ensuring that teaching remains attractive throughout a practitioner’s career;
- attracting more people into teaching by making it easier for the right people to become teachers.
The National Governance Association (NGA) contributed to the strategy development, alongside other organisations in the sector. Read more (external link) on the new strategy and the thoughts of Emma Knights, NGA’s chief executive, on recruitment and retention.