The Department for Education (DfE) has announced the launch of a teacher recruitment website allowing schools to advertise vacancies and recruit staff free of charge. The website will include part-time and job share roles and it is intended that the new service will help schools to save money by avoiding excessive advertising fees, which have cost schools up to £75 million a year. In addition, a nationwide deal for head teachers will commence in September 2018, which will give schools a list of supply agencies that do not charge fees when schools make supply staff permanent after 12 weeks.
The DfE confirmed that the website will be piloted in Cambridgeshire and the North East and rolled out nationally by the end of the year.