Supply survey 2021
The NEU’s annual supply member survey examines a range of issues relating to supply staff and their pay and employment.
Bargaining for alternatives to agencies (A2A) for supply educators
A toolkit for NEU branches & districts
Supporting supply members with agencies
Advice for branches in supporting supply members by engaging with agencies.
Supply worker employment and the COVID-19 crisis: NEU survey report 2020
This NEU survey of supply worker members on employment during the COVID-19 crisis opened on 24 April, receiving 1,966 responses. Most responses were received by 28 April, although responses continued to arrive until 14 May.
Advice
Getting the most out of your agency
Advice for members on how to secure the best deal when employed by an agency
Securing direct employment on a supply basis
Cutting out the middleman – a marketing approach to applying for direct supply teaching work in schools. Part of the Alternatives to Agencies (A2A) toolkit.
Coronavirus: guidance for supply members
NEU guidance on some of the issues supply members may encounter in their day-to-day work.
Supply teachers - pay, conditions and working time
Key questions and answers on pay and conditions for supply teachers.
Umbrella and limited companies
Advice on ‘umbrella’ and ‘limited’ companies and how to spot and prevent being caught up in tax avoidance schemes.
Health and safety for supply teachers
Health and safety issues for supply teachers, including those employed directly by local authorities, schools and academy trusts and those employed via supply agencies.
Agency worker regulations
What are the Agency Worker Regulations 2010 and what protection do they offer supply teachers and support staff?
Supporting supply members
How can I get the most from supply work and avoid the worst problems facing supply staff today?
Agency supply members: workplace pensions
Advice on your eligibility for and access to workplace pension schemes as an agency supply worker.
Supply teacher rights
Supply teachers who are in a 'pool' maintained by a LA, those located through the school's own contacts, or part-timers who wish to temporarily increase their hours, are likely to be employees of the school or LA for their period of supply work.
Press release
Supply Staff
The Covid crisis has demonstrated even more reasons to change the way that we organise the provision of supply staff in schools.
Teacher labour market
The NFER is right to note that any improvement in teacher supply due to the pandemic will be short-lived.
Letter to Gavin Williamson on behalf of supply members
NEU joint general secretaries have written to the education secretary Gavin Williamson about issues affecting supply staff during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Agencies must support supply staff in education sector
Analysis of the available Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme guidance strongly indicates that supply staff will be covered within it.
Action for supply teachers
Supply teachers, agency teaching assistants and others working in the education sector must have proper financial stability, on a genuine like-for-like with their directly-employed counterparts.
Policy
New Framework Agreement for supply teachers
Pay and conditions for supply teachers is an emotive issue for our members. New Framework Agreement is welcomed but a return to direct employment of supply teachers is needed.
Supply members
Supply agencies increase costs, drive down educators' pay and reduce security.