Provide a website allowing schools to advertise staff vacancies for free.
Over £50 million a year is spent by UK schools advertising job vacancies and some £500 million on supply teachers. This is due, largely, to the extortionate fees charged by current suppliers. In 2015, at the ASCL conference, Justine Greening promised this issue would be addressed. It hasn't been.
7,384 Signatures
Cost of Advertising:
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2016/jul/26/secondary-schools-spent-56m-teacher-job-ads-labour
Cost of Supply Teachers: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/2017/02/21/school-spending-supply-teacher-agencies-jumps-fifth-inthree/
Cost of Supply Agencies:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/12040309/Schools-spending-thousands-on-agencies-to-recruit-teachers.html
Government Recognition: p24 'Teacher Recruitment and Retention' Briefing Paper 19/0118
Top 10 Constituency Signatories to the Petition
| Constituency Signatures | % of Total Signatures | MP | Party-Constituency |
|---|---|---|---|
| 124 | 1.679% | Dr Sarah Wollaston | |
| 122 | 1.652% | Kevin Foster | Conservative Torbay |
| 79 | 1.07% | Jeremy Hunt | Conservative South West Surrey |
| 67 | 0.907% | Nadhim Zahawi | Conservative Stratford-on-Avon |
| 64 | 0.867% | Sir Edward Davey | Liberal Democrat Kingston and Surbiton |
| 57 | 0.772% | Sir Vince Cable | |
| 53 | 0.718% | Michael Fabricant | Conservative Lichfield |
| 43 | 0.582% | Mr Robin Walker | Conservative Worcester |
| 42 | 0.569% | Mike Hill | Labour Hartlepool |
| 41 | 0.555% | Greg Clark | Conservative Tunbridge Wells |
Top 50 Constituencies by Number of Signatures
1,839 signatures - 25.0% of total
