Question follow-through · 7931
Teachers: Unemployment
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to support unemployed teachers into teaching jobs.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 8 Oct 2024
- Target answer date
- 10 Oct 2024
- Answer
- 16 Oct 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
8 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to support unemployed teachers into teaching jobs.
10 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
16 Oct 2024
Answer published
High quality teaching is the factor that makes the biggest difference to a child’s education. This government is focused on supporting qualified teachers, be they newly qualified or returning to the profession, and helping them find teaching jobs that hel...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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