Six organisations have been given £17 million to support teachers with things like phonics, leadership, reading and STEM.
The fund will also see five “professional development excellence hubs” created in Blackpool, Birmingham, Northumberland, Sheffield, Stoke, and West Sussex. These hubs will support schools to develop and retain teachers.
The £75 million investment to support CPD and retention comes a week after the National Audit Office (NAO) published a critical report into teacher recruitment and retention.
The NAO said that the Department for Education (DfE) has spent relatively little on supporting the existing workforce and “cannot show that its interventions are improving teacher retention, deployment and quality”.
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