Catch up on the latest education, teaching and recruitment news below:

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• New Taskforce has been created to tackle teacher workload

  Monday, September 18, 2023

  Gillian Keegan, the Secretary State for Education has announced the introduction of a new task force to tackle unnecessary workload for teachers and school leaders. The taskforce will look at ways of how to reduce the working hours for teachers and leaders by 5 hours per week within the next 3 years.

• Teacher Pay Scales 2023-2024

  Friday, September 1, 2023

  Find out how much a Teacher gets paid per annum and also the equivalent daily pay rate.

• A look back at the 22/23 academic year

  Friday, July 21, 2023

  Before we end the academic year, we'd like to share some of the memorable highlights of the year and to show you what we have achieved with the support and partnership of our schools and our Flourish Champions.

• Teachers offered 6.5% pay rise from September 2023

  Friday, July 14, 2023

  Yesterday, the Department For Education (DfE) accepted the School Teachers’ Review Body (STRB) recommendation and announced a 6.5% pay rise across all pay scales for teachers and school leaders in England from September. The DfE will provide additional funding to cover 3% of the rise and schools are expected to fund the remaining 3.5% from existing school budgets. Unions are encouraging it’s members to accept this offer and are describing the deal as “fairly funded”.

• A 6.5% pay rise is unlikely to solve the Teacher Recruitment & Retention Crisis

  Wednesday, July 12, 2023

  New National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER) research, published today, shows that a teacher pay increase of 6.5% in 2023/24, as reportedly recommended by the School Teachers’ Review Body (STRB), is unlikely to solve the teacher recruitment and retention crisis on it’s own.
  
  The new report, Policy options for a long-term teacher pay and financial incentive strategy: an assessment of options and their impacts and costs carried out by the NFER and funded by the Gatsby Foundation suggests a new long term strategy is required to improve teacher recruitment and retention, particularly in Secondary Education STEM. The report suggests this long term strategy should focus on well-targeted financial incentives and action to improve the non-financial attractiveness of teaching alongside improving the competitiveness of teacher pay.

• Keeping Children Safe in Education 2023 Update

  Friday, July 7, 2023

  Ready for September 2023, Keeping children safe in Education 2023 has been updated by the Department for Education (DFE) and has been amended from its 2022 version for the wording to fall in line with the Behaviour in schools guidance. There have been a number of changes that everyone in the education sector needs to embrace, so in this news article; our Compliance Manager, Toni Pike runs through these changes and explains what they mean in more details.

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  Flourish Champions Of The Summer Term

  Thursday, July 6, 2023

  We are delighted to announce that this term, our Flourish Champions of the term are:
  Rajma, Bright and Rachel.

• Teacher Burnout: The warning signs

  Wednesday, June 28, 2023

  Many people outside of the teaching profession see the 6 weeks’ holiday and the short school hours and think teaching is easy and teachers have nothing to complain about. They don’t see the work teachers do at home, the long working days, the worry they have for some students and the pressure to make sure their students are progressing, engaged and focused. These factors and others, can be a massive contributor to teacher burnout.

• The number of teacher vacancies in the West Midlands has increased by over a third in 2022

  Friday, June 23, 2023

  The Department For Education released their School Workforce 2022 data release this week and shows the number of teacher vacancies in the West Midlands has increased by over a third in 2022 and the number of temporary filled posts have nearly doubled over the same period.

• 41% of teachers don’t expect to be in the teaching profession in the 3 years time!

  Thursday, June 8, 2023

  A new report released yesterday, alarmingly shows that 41% of teachers don’t expect to be in the teaching profession in the next 3 years. The report, Teacher Recruitment and Retention Report 2023 released by Teacher Tapp and SchoolDash and funded by Gatsby highlights the continued difficulties in teacher recruitment and retention.