A TaxPayers' Alliance investigation has provided updated figures for LA schools' total agency teaching staff spending. LA schools across the UK have spent £521,850,000 on temporary agency teachers in 2023/24.
Speaking to the Daily Mail, which published these findings, our investigations campaign manager, Joanna Marchong said:
“Taxpayers will be shocked by the sheer cost of agency staff in schools.
“State schools, under immense financial pressures, are straining their resources by spending hundreds of millions of pounds of taxpayers’ money on temporary staff.
“Schools must take urgent action to reduce their reliance on costly agency staff and ensure that every pound is spent on delivering quality education.”
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