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Member
Speaking in the House of Lords on 10 September 2025
Debate
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools BillContribution
Of course, the best recruitment strategy is also a good retention strategy. That is why we are committed to working with sector partners to reduce workload, improve well-being and enable greater flexible working so that teachers not only stay in the profession but thrive. Alongside that, of course, we have a targeted retention incentive, particularly focused at those subjects where it has been difficult to recruit the sorts of specialist teachers that we all want in the classroom: mathematics, physics, chemistry and computing teachers in the first years of their careers who choose to work in disadvantaged schools.
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