The Rise of the AI-Powered Product Engineer: What It Means for Teams, Roles, and Innovation
We analyse data from 115,000+ supply bookings to reveal how supply staff move between schools, and explore what this means for your supply service.
The Hidden Pattern in Your Supply Teaching Data: Introducing the “Shared Worker” Metric
We analyse data from 115,000+ supply bookings to reveal how supply staff move between schools, and explore what this means for your supply service.
How many supply staff does it take to run a successful supply service?
By analysing over 100,000 supply bookings, we’ve discovered something surprising: your 'A team' of supply staff doesn't need to be as big as you may think.
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 [...]