Picking up extra hours

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My dd is an ECT2 in a tiny maintained primary school which next year has a smaller roll, and can't afford 3 full-time teachers, so next year my daughter's class is going to combine with year another class for 3 afternoons a week.

She wants to pick up some afternoons if possible in other local schools.Can she just write to other maintained schools ( ie same employer) and offer herself as available for adhoc supply on these afternoons rather than an agency.She has connections with SLT/governors in several local schools.This would surely be cheaper for them than going through an agency.
Could I just check if this is a 'done' thing to contact schools directly as she doesn't want to look foolish!

I don't see why not. A teacher who worked part time at my school did exactly that.

Yes - she should be able to do that. She can set herself up as self-employed for those days too, I think. Or she can zero hours contracts with them.

Shouldn't be a problem. She will likely also pick up all sorts of extra hours at her own school, especially if she's happy to do TA/HLTA hours. I've been in pretty much that exact situation and there is a lot of cover needed because small schools have so little flexibility in their basic staff levels.