To think this surely isn't my responsibility

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DH is not working full time due to ill health, so reluctantly I have registered with a supply teaching agency.

One reference has duly been returned without a problem. However, a school I worked at has since seen the Head been dismissed.

The school were awful to work for/at. Anyway the agency can't get a reference so have told me to contact the school. AIBU to think surely this doesn't lie with me?

Just to add to the chorus of posts that will be ignored -

I work in a school office and have done for years. If someone in your situation calls, I can check records and get dates of employment and confirm no safeguarding issues or absence issues and then get the head to sign off. Doesn't matter if no one remembers or knows you.

Your call likely will be the magic touch, emails from agencies are much easier to ignore than calls from people who need you to do something.

I don't think people are mean on this thread, they've offered endless advice and op ignores it all and says we don't understand, even though many of us work in this industry or HR. It's bizarre and a frustrating read.

*Just to add to the chorus of posts that will be ignored -

I work in a school office and have done for years. If someone in your situation calls, I can check records and get dates of employment and confirm no safeguarding issues or absence issues and then get the head to sign off. Doesn't matter if no one remembers or knows you.

Your call likely will be the magic touch, emails from agencies are much easier to ignore than calls from people who need you to do something.

I don't think people are mean on this thread, they've offered endless advice and op ignores it all and says we don't understand, even though many of us work in this industry or HR. It's bizarre and a frustrating read.*

^^ this

Not a dig at you op I know you have decided your action as I have rtft

I've been the administration person ignoring the reference request email from agencies in the past. Not deliberately but I was massively overworked with an inbox full of stuff that needed to be done urgently and on a quick assessment of urgency/importance categorised reference requests from ex employees too far down the priority list for me to ever get to them. A phonecall from someone saying that they would lose a job opportunity unless I did it was sometimes the only thing that could drag the task to the top of the pile.

So have you rang them yet, OP?

No matter what happens, OP will claim that she rang them and got nowhere.

No matter what happens, OP will claim that she rang them and got nowhere.

Yeah, given her attitude, she probably will.