A call has gone out for retired teachers to return to the classroom to help with the Covid “staffing crisis” in schools.
Whole year groups have been sent home to work in some schools this term because staff are off ill or self-isolating and there are no supply teachers available.
Gary Williams, director at New Directions, Wales’ largest education recruitment company, said hundreds of bookings are being lost each day because there aren’t enough supply teachers to fill them.
