Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department is taking to support newly registered teachers to find employment.

Initial Teacher Training (ITT) providers are required to demonstrate that their trainees go on to secure employment; employment rates are one of the outcome measures that Ofsted uses to grade ITT providers.

The latest data shows that 95% of postgraduate trainee teachers who were awarded Qualified Teacher Status were employed in a teaching post within six months of qualifying.[1]

The Department is developing a free national digital service for schools to publish teacher vacancies and for teachers to search for them. This new service will assist newly registered teachers to find posts.

[1]https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/632451/SFR38_2017_Text.pdf