• Norfolk Supply Register blog

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

2025-03-21T15:48:58+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, [...]

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

2025-03-17T10:45:19+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

2024-09-16T13:12:17+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, [...]

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Teacher Booker to Provide Supply Staffing Platform to the Welsh Government

2023-06-14T11:33:44+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 [...]

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Why adopting a Supply Pool for agency and temporary staff transforms SEN schools

2024-08-08T10:45:39+00:00CPD, Educational Research, Schools, Special Educational Needs, Teachers, Teaching, Teaching Assistants, Wellbeing|

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 announcement of Crescent Purchasing Consortium Framework appointment

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

2022-07-18T11:14:22+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 [...]