Figures show that secondaries hired 10,166 supply staff a week during the spring term 2013 compared to 8,067 during the same period in 2012 – a rise of 26 per cent.
Across all schools, 41,000 supply teachers worked each week during the spring term 2013 – up 10 per cent from 37,200 in the same term in 2012.
Furthermore, the average number of supply teachers working each week in 2013 is higher than at any point in the past five years.
The figures come from Randstad Education’s Supply Teacher Tracker and the specialist recruiter has put the rise down to the post-election slump in teacher training applicants.
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