Recommendation 69

HM Government · verbatim extract Deferred

Since 2021, the Behaviour Hubs programme has offered support to schools that want to improve pupil behaviour and create calm, safe and supportive environments. The programme will run until March 2025. We are considering how we can build school support for behaviour and attendance into the new regional improvement for standards and excellence (RISE) teams. This government is working to ensure that schools are able to recruit and retain the teachers they need to break down barriers to opportunity as a priority. We understand the scale of the challenge and are committed to working with the sector to tackle it and restore teaching’s status as a valued and trusted profession. We are encouraged by the early progress that has been made to move forward the aims of many of the recommendations made in the report including: We restarted and expanded the teacher recruitment campaign “Every Lesson Shapes a Life”. We accepted in full the School Teachers’ Review Body’s recommendation of a 5.5% pay award for teachers and leaders in maintained schools from this September. We announced a financial incentives package for the 2025/26 recruitment cycle is worth up to £233 million, a £37 million increase on the last cycle. This includes a range of measures, including bursaries worth £29,000 tax-free and scholarships worth £31,000 tax-free, to encourage talented trainees to key subjects such as mathematics, physics, chemistry and computing. We are committed to supporting schools to implement the full range of flexible working practices, which can include taking Planning, Preparation and Assessment time remotely, so that teaching offers a career which flexes as teachers lives change and develop. We are moving to a new system of school report cards Ofsted inspection reports having already abolished single headline judgements and are removing the requirement for Performance Related Pay, and publishing new guidance documents on appraisals, capability and pay.