Teacher regional recruitment report

Teacher Recruitment Trends by Region 2016

The NAHT recently undertook their third survey on school recruitment recording the experiences of school leader’s

recruiting teachers and senior leaders in 2016.

Unfortunately it doesn’t present a positive outlook for school recruitment, the survey results show for the third year running there has been no improvement in teacher supply for schools

across the country.

This clearly demonstrates action needs to be taken to fix the teacher recruitment crisis in the UK, we need to make the

profession more attractive to join and stay in.

In this report we are going to look at the regional trends in teacher recruitment.

Introduction

• For the third year in a row school leaders report a continuing problem with recruitment across all roles, from teachers to senior leaders.

• Overall, a very high proportion (79%) of posts were difficult to recruit for; of this 62% of posts were a struggle to fill and the remaining 17% were unable to be recruited for at all.

• Across all roles, for those that failed to recruit, recruitment agencies were the most common solution pursued in 70% of cases of unfilled roles.

• The growing struggle to recruit means that nearly half of schools reported using recruitment agencies to recruit their permanent roles (44%); with 69% of those saying they had done so as they had failed to recruit previously.

For the third year respondents reported in increasing numbers that recruitment

difficulties were due to the number of teachers leaving the profession in their area. This figure, which more than doubled between 2014 and 2015, increased by a further nine percentage points this year, with 42% of respondents citing it. This continues to be the third highest reason cited for their recruitment problems. This reflects other report findings, which suggest similar trends, including the DfE’s own data.

• Nationally, there has also been a large increase in the number of school leaders citing high housing and living costs as an explanation, with a seven percentage point increase seen between 2015 and 2016. This is another large increase, on top of that seen between 2014 and 2015, when this reason increased from 17% to 24% and rose from the 7th most common reason to the 4th.

Key Findings

A deeply worrying aspect was that the number of respondents highlighted that budget pressures were to blame for their failure to recruit, rising from 9% in 2015 to 22% in 2016.

This corresponds with the findings that NAHT reported in our September 2015 ‘breaking point’ survey. Respondents are saying that the school funding crisis is preventing them from paying the salaries that will attract or retain teachers.

Below is a regional overview of teacher recruitment in 2016. The bar charts represent all teaching positions from NQTs through to Head Teachers on the following pages we go into more detail on each specific region and teaching positions within that region.

Regional Overview

London

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Eastern England

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South East

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East and West Midlands

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South West and South Central

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North East, North West & Yorkshire

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Recruited with difficulty % Failed to recruit %

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26%

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63%

18%

62%

19%

North East, North West & Yorkshire Teacher Recruitment TrendsResearch shows that schools in the North East, North West and Yorkshire struggled with recruitment in 2016. Close to half of those asked found it difficult to recruit for all roles, with a staggering 76% of institutions finding it hard to recruit for Head Teacher and Principal roles. Furthermore, almost a quarter found recruiting for SENCo positions impossible as 23% failed to recruit at all; this 23% is considerably higher than all other regions apart from the South East. Overall, the majority of all schools struggled to recruit in most areas including Deputy Head and Vice Principal roles.

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Deputy Head / Vice Principal

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SENCo

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Head Teachers / Principals

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90

Teachers on main pay scale

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Teaching Role with TLR

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Teacher on Upper Pay Scale

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School Business Mangers

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58%

46%

23%5%

46%

76%

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East and West Midlands Teacher Recruitment TrendsIn the East and West Midlands all schools managed to recruit School Business Managers, something that only happened in this region and South West and Central. As with the majority of other regions, recruitment was strongest when looking at Head Teachers and Principals. This region found struggles similar to the rest of the country. The largest failures to recruit can be seen in relation to SENCo, teaching roles within TLR and teachers on Upper Pay Scale.


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23%

67%

8%

58%61%

23%

7%

66%55%

27%22%

50%

72%

17%0%

10%

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Eastern England Teacher Recruitment TrendsIn Eastern England the highest recruitment success can be seen when focusing on Head Teacher and Principal positions, which can be seen across most of the regions. The amount of schools that reported difficulty recruiting is high, with over half of schools reporting struggles for all position types such as 70% for teaching roles with TLR and 68% for SENCo. There are no recruitment areas in this region that reported no failures to recruit, with the lowest being 6% for Head Teachers and Principals.


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24%

67%

70%59%

23%

59%68%

16%28%

62%

88%

6%10%

South West & South Central Teacher Recruitment TrendsNo schools in South West and South Central England reported failings when recruiting School Business Managers, and only 13% reported failure when hiring Deputy Head Teachers and Vice Principals. Throughout the entire report the only time the percentage of schools who failed to recruit is higher than the percentage who had difficulty can be seen within the data taken from South West and South Central areas; 50% failed to recruit teachers on an upper pay scale, whereas only 45% recruited with difficulty.


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26%

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56% 57%

26%

13%

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9%14%

25%

19%

South East Teacher Recruitment TrendsThe percentage of schools that failed to recruit at all in the South East is on average lower than other regions, with percentages of 0, 13 and 19 being found. The largest difficulty can be seen when looking at the data from School Business Managers, and this differs from all other regions where teachers on the main pay scale and Head Teacher and Principal roles proved more challenging. Additionally, no schools failed to recruit for SENCo positions and this is something that is not reported in any other region.


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69% 67%

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23%

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LondonTeacher Recruitment TrendsWhen looking at recruiting School Business Managers a third of schools reported difficulty and a third failed altogether, therefore only 33% of schools successfully recruited School Business Managers in London in 2016. The largest difficulty can be seen when looking at teachers on the main pay scale at 68% and the largest failure to recruit can be seen when looking at teachers on the upper pay scale, at 44%. Overall, in London only 8% of those asked recruited a teacher on the upper pay scale without any difficulty.


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33% 33%

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22%

48% 44%

67%

22%

58%

27%

63%

13%

68%

26%

67%

14%

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