England’s teacher retention crisis costs taxpayers £1bn a year
A TaxPayers' Alliance investigation has found that agency teaching staff has cost taxpayers over £3.5 billion. Local authority maintained schools and academies in England have spent £3,540,989,293.82 on agency teaching staff over the last four years.
Speaking to the Telegraph, which published these findings, our head of research, Darwin Friend, said:
“Taxpayers will be astonished that schools are spending billions on agency staff.
“Schools across England are facing significant financial pressures which are straining resources. Paying for expensive supply teachers is a cost that taxpayers cannot afford.
“Schools must reduce their reliance on costly external teaching staff.”
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England’s teacher retention crisis costs taxpayers £1bn a year
Supply teachers have been relied on more since the pandemic as teachers leave the profession due to burn out and stress, figures show
Connor Stringer