Question follow-through · 17497
Teachers: Recruitment
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she plans to restore funding to the Career Change Programme.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 2 Dec 2024
- Target answer date
- 4 Dec 2024
- Answer
- 10 Dec 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
2 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she plans to restore funding to the Career Change Programme.
4 Dec 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
10 Dec 2024
Answer published
Career changers make a valuable contribution to the teaching profession and the department remains committed to recruiting and supporting them into initial teacher training. The department’s wider offer to all potential teachers, including career changers...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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