Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what discussions he has had with third-party organisations in setting up the Overseas Teachers acclimatisation service in 2022.

The overseas teacher acclimatisation service is piloting support for newly recruited overseas trained teachers in priority subjects.

Officials from the department discussed proposals for an overseas teacher acclimatisation service with external organisations, including holding a formal market engagement day in July 2021. The procurement opportunity and formal market engagement event were listed on Contracts Finder on GOV.UK. Based on this market insight, services were procured from an existing framework. Eligible framework suppliers, and the wider market engaged, were notified of this decision ahead of running the procurement process in autumn 2021.

The contract was published on Contracts Finder and is available here: https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/2541b800-1e4c-45c8-a953-c050f45c9787