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Teachers: Recruitment

Commons · Question 53835 · Tabled 21 May 2025 · Department for Education · Official record

Answered 6 Jun 2025

Question

Asked by Damian Hinds

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how the recruitment of 6,500 new expert teachers in key subjects will be split across (a) mainstream schools (b) special schools and (c) other educational settings.

Answer

Answered by Catherine McKinnell, 6 Jun 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...