Deal for schools: hiring supply teachers and agency workers
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How schools can get value for money, avoid fees and find local agencies who complete thorough background and safeguarding checks.
Adapted edition
- Document type
- Reference Guide
- Format
- DOCX
- Pages
- 5
- Language
- English
- Version
- 1.0
- Updated
- 2026-09-17
- Category
- Safety & operations
- Licence
- Open Government Licence v3.0
Description
How schools can get value for money, avoid fees and find local agencies who complete thorough background and safeguarding checks. Consult the original guidance for current legal and operational details.
Contents
- How the deal works
- Agency mark-up
- How to access the online tool
- How to find a managed service provider
- Check how much it costs to make an agency worker permanent
- Fixed-term fees
- If you make a fixed-term worker permanent
- Checks the agencies do on workers
- Using an agency that is not part of the deal
- Workers you've already found and want to hire
- How we make sure agencies comply with the terms of the deal
- Complaints and concerns
- Full contract details
Source and licence
Department for Education
AttributionDepartment for Education, ‘Deal for schools: hiring supply teachers and agency workers’ (updated 3 September 2026), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
ChangesNeutral text-only adaptation from the official GOV.UK Content API body: headings, paragraphs, ordered and unordered list items and clickable source-link destinations in an appendix preserved. Images, logos, page design, accessible-format request widgets and linked attachments excluded; normalised whitespace, invisible format marks and typography.
Version history
- v1.017/09/2026