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, [...]
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, [...]
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 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 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 [...]
Building on our campaign to access fair pay for all supply teachers and school support staff we are today delighted to announce our accreditation as a Living Wage Employer by the Living Wage Foundation. The Living Wage campaign has a basic fairness at its heart: all workers should be paid enough to live [...]
We are pleased to announce that we have been selected as a framework supplier by Scotland Excel to provide high quality supply teacher booking solutions for their member councils. The agreement, which will see us, along with four other providers, support members, councils and other bodies across Scotland to fill their required supply [...]
The coming school year is shaping up to be one of the most unusual in living memory. As yet there is little guarantee that the usual form and structure of the school year will be in place -- prudent school leaders will now be preparing for the unexpected, and ensuring plans are in place [...]
