Education: Rural Areas
Commons · Question 53377 · Tabled 19 May 2025 · Department for Education · Official record
Answered 28 May 2025
Question
Asked by Rachel Gilmour
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to help support rural (a) primary schools, (b) secondary schools and (c) further education colleges to recruit (i) sustainable and (ii) adequate levels of staff.
Answer
Answered by Catherine McKinnell, 28 May 2025
High-quality teaching is the in-school factor that has the biggest positive impact on a child and young person’s outcome in schools and colleges. Recruiting and retaining more qualified, expert teachers is critical to the government’s mission to break dow...