Provide a website allowing schools to advertise staff vacancies for free.

Closed 7,384 signatures

What the petition asks

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.

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

Timeline

9 Mar 2018	Petition opened for signatures
9 Sep 2018	Closed to new signatures

Key facts

Signatures 7,384

Status Closed

Opened 9 Mar 2018

Closed 9 Sep 2018

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