Supply staff savings allow Lime Trust to invest in schools and pupils

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Lime Trust made significant savings on supply staffing by using the Government Commercial Agency (GCA) framework agreement – with the money saved being reinvested in its schools and pupils. The multi-academy trust - which comprises four primary and five special …

Over £1 million saved - how Shaw Education Trust turned supply staffing into a strategic asset

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This is the final post in a three-part series. In our first post, we outlined the supply staffing challenges Shaw Education Trust (SET) faced. In our second post, we explained how they built their compliant master vendor model. Here, we …

How Shaw Education Trust built a compliant, trust-wide supply model - and how yours could too

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This is the second post in a three-part series. In our first post, we described the supply staffing challenges Shaw Education Trust (SET) faced and why acting early was essential. Here, we explain how they built their solution.  Once SET …

How Shaw Education Trust took control of supply staffing - and what your trust could learn from it

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For Shaw Education Trust (SET), a multi-academy trust of 31 schools across England, supply staffing had become one of the largest and least controlled areas of expenditure, with annual costs rising to over £5 million*. SET took a step back …

A better deal on agency supply staff: what the new Supply Teachers and Education Recruitment framework means for schools and trusts

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Image of a teacher and pupils in a classroom with accompanying text which reads: “The new framework introduces a cap on the supplier fees - not on what supply workers are paid. Agency staff pay and conditions are entirely unaffected.”

In this blog we explore the new Government Commercial Agency supply staff framework and how it aims to rebalance the market, saving schools money. Schools across England spend approximately £1.4 billion a year on agency supply staff. Whilst many supply …