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Teachers: Labour Turnover and Recruitment

Commons · Question 22472 · Tabled 7 Jan 2025 · Department for Education · Official record

Answered 13 Jan 2025

Question

Asked by Andrew Cooper

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment her Department has made of the number of unfilled teacher posts in (a) Mid Cheshire constituency, (b) Cheshire, (c) the North West and (d) England in each of the last five years; and what

Answer

Answered by Catherine McKinnell, 13 Jan 2025

Recruiting and retaining more teachers is critical to the government’s mission to break down barriers to opportunity and boost the life chances for every child, as the within-school factor that makes the biggest difference to a young person’s educational ...