Workforce & Wellbeing
NAHT Cymru: make teaching attractive to control supply teacher costs
While the school leaders’ union concedes that schools will always require supply teachers, it believes that the recruitment and retention challenges facing schools mean that demand has ‘undoubtedly grown’
NAHT Cymru is urging the Welsh government to prioritise restoring teaching as an attractive career proposition, in response to figures sourced by the Welsh Conservative which show 16 councils spent more than £78m on supply teachers in 2023/24.
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