Teachers: Recruitment

(asked on 30th January 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 25 January 2018 to Question 124211, whether the recruitment targets set out in recent Annual Reports of the National College for Teaching and Leadership in respect to measuring quality and outcome of free childcare and entitlement to free early years education and childcare are the Government's targets; and if he will make a statement.


Answered by
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Nadhim Zahawi
This question was answered on 2nd February 2018

As confirmed in our responses to parliamentary questions 123211 and 123170, there are no targets for recruiting early years teachers. The early years initial teacher training programme has always been a demand-led programme.

The figures in the National College for Teaching and Leadership annual reports were a total number of places available to training providers to bid for. These figures were based on available resource and estimated demand for places. The department has not set a recruitment target for early years initial teacher training programmes.

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