Education Recruitment | Teacher Booker

Why Norfolk’s Supply Register Works — And How Your MAT or LA’s Can Too

Chetan Sood2025-03-21T15:48:58+00:00Case Study, Education Recruitment, Flexible Working, Local Authority Supply Pools, School Jobs, Schools, Strategy, Supply Teacher Agencies, Supply Teacher Pay, Supply Teachers, Teacher Recruitment, Teachers|

In an era when most of England’s supply provision comes from supply agencies, Norfolk has bucked the trend – and the results speak for themselves. The Norfolk Supply Register (NSR), run in‑house by EducationHR Norfolk and powered by the Teacher Booker platform, offers schools a cost‑effective, values‑led way of sourcing supply that prioritises quality, consistency, [...]

Navigating the Procurement Act 2023: How UK Schools Can Adapt Their Temporary Staffing Approach

Chetan Sood2025-03-17T10:45:19+00:00Education Recruitment, Procurement, Strategy, Supply Teacher Agencies, Supply Teachers, Teacher Recruitment, Teachers|

Guest blog: Ben Holtom, RecQuest Ltd With over a decade of experience in education recruitment working for some of the largest National brands, I specialise in helping schools and Multi Academy Trusts optimise their hiring strategies, reduce costs, and build strong talent pipelines. As the founder of RecQuest, an new and independent consultancy, [...]

Whitepaper: The Need for an Applicant Tracking System (ATS) in State-Maintained Schools and decentralised MATs in the UK

Ollie Parsons2024-09-16T13:12:17+00:00Case Study, Education Recruitment, Flexible Working, Local Authority Supply Pools, School Jobs, Strategy, Supply Teacher Agencies, Supply Teachers, Teacher Recruitment, Teachers|

Summary The UK education sector is facing a significant recruitment and retention crisis across all settings, caused by a number of factors. The current challenges include a shortage of qualified teachers, high turnover rates and longstanding unfilled jobs that mean that recruitment, once something that happened periodically, is now a year round task, [...]

INMAT: Case Study for the Centralisation of Supply

Dani Fa2024-09-13T14:40:02+00:00Case Study, Education Recruitment, Flexible Working, Local Authority Supply Pools, School Jobs, Strategy, Supply Teacher Agencies, Supply Teachers, Teacher Recruitment, Teachers|

Summary INMAT, a Multi-Academy-Trust of 11 primary academies in Northamptonshire, faced increasing costs (£328,000 in 2021/22) and inefficiencies with their decentralised supply teacher management. In response, INMAT's CFO, Becci Denbigh, spearheaded the centralisation of their supply system using Teacher Booker’s innovative Supply Pool software. This strategic move aimed to streamline the supply process, [...]

Glasgow City Council Teacher Booker Implementation & Results

Dani Fa2025-03-21T11:35:33+00:00Case Study, Education Recruitment, Flexible Working, Local Authority Supply Pools, School Jobs, Strategy, Supply Teacher Agencies, Supply Teachers, Teacher Recruitment, Teachers|

Summary Glasgow City Council, the sole provider of supply teachers for city schools, embarked on a mission to modernise its traditional and manual processes. Recognising the need for a tech-driven approach, they collaborated with Teacher Booker. This partnership transitioned the council from a system reliant on phone bookings and paperwork to a swift, [...]

Teacher Booker to Provide Supply Staffing Platform to the Welsh Government

Dani Fa2023-06-14T11:33:44+00:00Education Recruitment, Flexible Working, Local Authority Supply Pools, School Jobs, Strategy, Supply Teacher Agencies, Supply Teachers, Teacher Recruitment, Teachers|

Teacher Booker Ltd is proud to announce that it has won a major contract with the Welsh Government to provide its supply staffing platform to all schools across Wales. This marks a significant milestone for the company and highlights its commitment to providing innovative and effective solutions to the challenges faced by schools and [...]

Teacher Booker Appointed to Crescent Purchasing Consortium’s (CPC) Temporary and Permanent Staffing Framework

Chetan Sood2022-07-18T11:14:22+00:00Education Recruitment, Flexible Working, Local Authority Supply Pools, School Jobs, Strategy, Supply Teacher Agencies, Supply Teachers, Teachers|

In addition to our recent appointment to the Crown Commercial Service (CCS) Supply Teachers Framework, we are pleased to announce a further appointment to the Crescent Purchasing Consortium (CPC) Temporary and Permanent Staffing Framework as a provider across 4 lots, including as one of only 4 providers appointed to the lot for Education Vendor [...]

What is the Crown Commercial Service (CCS) Framework, and how does it help me?

Chetan Sood2022-07-12T14:26:10+00:00Education Recruitment, Flexible Working, Local Authority Supply Pools, School Jobs, Strategy, Supply Teacher Agencies, Supply Teachers, Teacher Recruitment, Teachers|

Teacher Booker have been named as a supplier on Crown Commercial Service’s Supply Teachers and Temporary Staffing Framework. Here's what that means for supply teachers and support staff, school leaders, MATs and Local Authorities. What is the Framework for? The CCS Framework is not simply a commercial vehicle for companies to provide supply [...]

Teacher Booker Awarded a Place on the Crown Commercial Service (CCS) Supply Teachers and Temporary Staffing Framework

Teacher Booker2022-07-12T15:44:14+00:00Education Recruitment, Flexible Working, Local Authority Supply Pools, School Jobs, Strategy, Supply Teacher Agencies, Supply Teachers, Teachers|

Teacher Booker have been named as a supplier on Crown Commercial Service’s Supply Teachers and Temporary Staffing (STaTS) framework on both Lot 1 - Direct provision of Supply Teachers, Education Support Staff and other temporary staffing services and Lot 4 - Education Technology Platform Provision of Supply Teachers, Education Support Staff and other temporary [...]

Reforming the Treatment and Engagement of Temporary Workers in Schools

Chetan Sood2022-02-22T11:40:20+00:00Education Recruitment, Flexible Working, Local Authority Supply Pools, School Funding, Schools, Senior Leadership, Strategy, Supply Teacher Agencies, Supply Teacher Pay, Supply Teachers, Teacher Recruitment|

Schools across the UK have been facing a severe short term staffing shortage this winter. So much so that the DfE even launched a brief campaign to encourage former teachers back into the classroom, on a supply basis, to support continued in-person provision. But it hasn’t been enough to ensure continuity of provision across [...]

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