Written Question·Department for Education·UIN 40040

Teachers: Somerset

Tabled: 20 March 2025
Answered: 28 March 2025

Question

Adam Dance

Liberal DemocratYeovil

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans she has to improve teacher (a) recruitment and (b) retention in Somerset.

Answer

Catherine McKinnell
High quality teaching is the most important in-school factor to a child’s educational outcomes. Recruiting and retaining more qualified, expert teachers is therefore critical to the government’s mission to break down barriers to opportunity and boost the ...

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