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Funds axed for teacher recruitment scheme triggering backlash

Teachers and MPs hit out at decision to defund Now Teach in midst of staffing ‘crisis’
Now Teach founder Lucy Kellaway said: ‘We’re in the middle of a recruitment crisis . . . It’s really important that we don’t go under’

Ministers are facing sharp criticism over scrapping funding for a teacher recruitment programme targeting older career switchers, as schools in England grapple with a vacancies crisis.

The Department for Education has confirmed it will no longer fund the career changing scheme, provided by the charity Now Teach, to recruit new cohorts of teachers from other lines of work.

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