Statistics published by the Department for Education (DfE) last week show that there were 920 teacher vacancies as of November 2016 – up from 730 in 2015.
Meanwhile, the total number of temporarily filled posts was 3,280 – up from 2,870 in 2015.
On top of this, the figures show a 2,700 drop in the number of full-time teachers working in secondary schools. In 2015 there were 210,900 but this has now fallen to 208,200.
Overall, there has been a rise in the number of full-time teachers by 400 to 457,300 in 2016. However, this is the smallest annual rise in recent years and there is concern because at the same time secondary pupil numbers are due to increase by 10 per cent by 2020.
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