Recruitment challenges

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Hi All
Doing some research for a work project and I was wondering if anyone would mind helping me out
The question is - what are the biggest challenges faced by schools when trying to recruit teachers?
I’m looking for info at Primary and Secondary level
Any help would be very gratefully received. NOT a journalist by the way
Cheers

Just have a scroll through this section of MN. Some areas and subjects there are a lack of teachers or a lack of teachers willing to continue in the English state education system. Sometimes this is due for the job in the case of STEM subjects this is due low wages in comparison to other STEM jobs. Are you looking specifically at recruitment or retention as well?

Recruitment
I will have a good read of this section later, thank you
I could google but I would rather hear from actual teachers/Heads

Quantity and quality of applicants.

Thank you
I was aware that there weren’t enough of them ( especially at Secondary) but didn’t know that quality was an issue as well

Quality is definitely an issue. We don’t have enough Alevel teachers for my subject (maths). We are recruiting but are not hopeful we will get anyone capable of teaching A level. Very few applicants have maths degrees. Even for teaching lower years, the standard of applicants is often not very good and this is at an ofsted outstanding school.
One big issue is we are in the south but not London or fringe- same salary as people living places where housing is half the price or less.

Housing - we are in an expensive part of SE England and most teachers can't afford to live here.

Certain subjects much harder to get any applicants (physics & maths) - that's ANY at all.

We do staff well being surveys (which are then acted upon) to try and keep the lovely teachers we have for as long as possible (secondary school).

Being a school in special measures. It's really hard trying to get out when you can't seem to recruit enough teachers who are actually going to raise standards.