


Hidden costs of LA, Academy Trust talent pools for supply teachers
Hidden costs of Local Authority, Multi Academy Trust Talent Pools for Supply Teachers & Non-teaching staff Creating and running a successful local authority or multi academy trust supply teacher and non-teaching supply talent pool is challenging. Talent pools are...
Why academy trust & local authority supply teacher talent pools often fail
Why academy trust & local authority supply teacher talent pools often fail Headteachers, Business Managers and Cover Managers have full time jobs already, filling vacancies to cover sickness and planned staff absence is a necessary inconvenience on top of that....
Face coverings reduce risk for supply & teaching staff
The Education Secretary Nadhim Zahawi recommends face covering for pupils staff and visitors in Year 7 & above Department for Education recognise high absence & issue of availability of supply staff The Department for Education is looking at steps and measures...
Back to school – supply teachers and part-time workers when are you available?
Back to school – supply teachers and part-time workers when are you available? Sharing availability for supply teachers and learning support assistants with preferred schools and agencies is often a painful and necessary process. It’s difficult because there are...
Is your school reducing its Covid-19 staffing risk?
Schools manage their own pools of external supply staff, they know and like from the agencies they prefer working with to reduce Covid-19 infection risk.

How do recruitment businesses reliant on temporary workers manage risk?
Running a business means dealing with risk and uncertainty, the constant companions of directors. Uncertainty ebbs and flows, as do risks and their mitigation. #RECMembers #recruiters especially those in temporary recruitment are experiencing significant increases in...
How frustrating is it for schools waiting to hear which temps have been allocated to your staff vacancies?
Not knowing who might be allocated or if the quality is good enough is unnerving at best. Especially unsettling when schools are told at the last minute, the proposed supply teacher can’t make it, leaving them short or with an alternative unskilled for the job. It...
What does it cost temp agencies to manage unpredictable availability?
Storm Ciara reminds us that change is constant; what does it cost temp agencies to manage unpredictable availability? We’ve had flights cancelled, trains cancelled, roads blocked, houses flooded, too wet, too cold, too dangerous; we can see before our eyes the climate...