Spend on supply staff includes salaries and wages (including allowances, maternity pay, employer contributions to National Insurance, and teachers’ pensions) for supply teaching staff employed to cover teaching staff absence.

It includes supply teachers that are employed directly by the school and those that are paid through an agency or third party. It also includes premiums paid to insurers for supply teacher cover and sums de-delegated by the local authority for centrally managed schemes for supply cover.

On the basis of these findings some schools may wish to explore theemployee screening servicewhich is a comprehensive service covering all employee screening service requirements. (Expires 05/11/2020)

The department also has support forhiring supply teachers and agency workers. This is a database of suppliers available for all temporary and fixed term teaching and non-teaching staff for schools, colleges or other educational establishments within the public sector such as an academy, trust, nursery, pupil referral unit, children centre or further education institution, across the UK. (Expires: 29/08/2022)

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