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In a damning and hard-hitting report, MPs demand immediate action on teacher recruitment

Recruitment & Retention Whole-school issues Teaching staff
A damning report from the Committee of Public Accounts has blasted the ‘woefully aloof’ DfE for failing to understand the recruitment difficulties being experienced by schools. It calls on the DfE to take urgent action. Pete Henshaw reports

The Department for Education (DfE) is “woefully aloof” about the mounting evidence of a teacher recruitment crisis in England and “fails to understand” the difficulties facing many schools.

This is the conclusion of an extremely damning report by MPs that rips into the DfE’s handling of teacher training and recruitment and is demanding immediate action.

The Committee of Public Accounts (CPA) says that despite missing its teacher recruitment targets for four years running, the DfE has “no plan” for how to achieve them in the future.

The report calls for an urgent review of teacher training, warning that the range of routes into teaching that now exist is confusing for applicants.

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