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Select committee: Education Committee

1st Special Report - Teacher recruitment, training and retention: Government Response

Published 16 January 2025

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The government's response

This document responds to Second Report - Teacher recruitment, training and retention.

This is the government's response, published 16 January 2025.

Summary written by Accountability Index from the government's response. It is not the government's own words.

The government says it "will consider the report's findings and recommendations carefully" and points to its own programme, including recruiting an additional 6,500 teachers, while setting out agreement and disagreement on individual recommendations.

  • On extending the Teacher Workforce Model to further education, the Department says it "will continue to keep the schools and further education estimates separate" because of "the differing factors determining both the demand and supply of teachers".
  • On subject-level data, it says it "will explore publishing subject level leaver rates" in future School Workforce Census publications, but does not publish reasons for leaving by subject "due to small sample sizes".
  • On a bursary for career changers, it states "We do not believe there is a need to introduce a bursary specifically for career changers", noting that such trainees can access existing bursaries and scholarships.
  • On NPQ funding, it is "committed to continue delivering funded NPQs in 2025", with future funding "confirmed in due course following the multiyear Spending Review".

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