Labour responds to new teacher training data showing new entrants down 20%

Stephen Morgan MP, Labour’s Shadow Schools Minister, responding to new teacher training data showing new entrants down 20%, said:

“The Conservatives’ disastrous management of our schools is not only driving existing teachers from the profession, but also actively dissuading new recruits from joining. 

“For new recruitment to be down a fifth in a year shows the chilling effect that this Government is having on the teaching profession.  

“Labour’s National Excellence Programme, paid for by ending tax breaks for private schools, will recruit more than 6,500 new teachers so that every child gets a brilliant state education.”