Teaching and Support Staff: Recruitment and Retention

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Education – in the House of Commons at on 11 March 2019.

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Photo of Damian Hinds Damian Hinds The Secretary of State for Education

Of course we recognise the additional cost in high-cost areas, in particular in London. It is true that there are 200 more teachers in the Ealing local authority area than there were in 2010. However, it remains a very competitive recruitment market, particularly for graduate recruitment, partly because of the historically very low unemployment we have, and that makes our recruitment and retention strategy all the more important.