#WasteNotWantMore
#WasteNotWantMore
Every year, over £500 million is spent on recruitment agency fees in public sector schools alone.
This much-needed money is being diverted away from school resources, staff and the children and young people in their care.
The system is failing schools, who are faced with an ever-challenging funding shortfall and lack of available resource to prevent this.
#WasteNotWantMore
Every year, over £500 million is spent on recruitment agency fees in public sector schools alone.
This much-needed money is being diverted away from school resources, staff and the children and young people in their care.
The system is failing schools, who are faced with an ever-challenging funding shortfall and lack of available resource to prevent this.
#WasteNotWantMore
#WasteNotWantMore
£30,000 would provide one school with a full-time teacher or one and a half, full-time TAs and 25 computers.
£150,000 would provide five schools with two full-time teachers, three full-time TAs and a mini bus or one teacher, one TA, 75 computers, seven interactive white boards and 4000 library books.
#WasteNotWantMore
£30,000 would provide one school with a full-time teacher or one and a half, full-time TAs and 25 computers.
£150,000 would provide five schools with two full-time teachers, three full-time TAs and a mini bus or one teacher, one TA, 75 computers, seven interactive white boards and 4000 library books.
What would you spend the money on?
If you had £30,000 to spend in a school next year, what would you spend it on? And why?
If you had £500 Million to invest in the education sector next year, what – in your opinion – would make the most difference?
In today’s economic climate, every pound wasted is a pound too much. So we’re asking leading thinkers in education, school leaders, teachers, parents and pupils what they would do to reinvest this financial loss.
In today’s economic climate, every pound wasted is a pound too much. So we’re asking leading thinkers in education, school leaders, teachers, parents and pupils what they would do to reinvest this financial loss.
What can be done?
We believe that a consolidation of the education recruitment market will help control expenditure, increase flexibility for workers and raise the overall standard of service from recruitment providers.
We want schools to become empowered to take control of their recruitment provision by ensuring they are aware in advance of the costs involved when recruiting, and have the confidence to actively seek out competitive offers and alternative options to ensure best value and quality is achieved.
Schools should be given the support to pool resources between groups of schools for collaborative on-demand provision, experiment with new flexible working and job share models and share best practice.
Recruitment providers and leaders in education need to explore how technology can help introduce greater flexibility and fluidity into the labour market.
More attention must be paid to the soaring levels of teacher stress and pressures of increasing workload to help attract more entrants to the profession and retain existing teachers.
Legislation should be adjusted for education specifically to make employment rules simpler, fairer and more fit for purpose for the specific dynamics and recruitment cycles of the sector.
