Why 87% of Staff Absences Aren’t Emergencies — And What That Means for Your School
By analysing over 90,000 supply bookings, we’ve discovered something surprising: only 12.6% of bookings are made for same-day cover.
Why Norfolk’s Supply Register Works — And How Your MAT or LA’s Can Too
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
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
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, [...]
Teacher Booker to Provide Supply Staffing Platform to the Welsh Government
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 [...]
Why adopting a Supply Pool for agency and temporary staff transforms SEN schools
Save money. SEN settings spend a huge amount of their budget on supply staff, especially on agency fees. SEN settings make up around 4.5% of all schools and settings in England, but account for 13.5% of total supply staff spend across all settings. We completely understand why this happens. The high needs of the [...]
Teacher Booker Appointed to Crescent Purchasing Consortium’s (CPC) Temporary and Permanent Staffing Framework
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?
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 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
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 [...]