Supply Teachers and Education Recruitment
Summary
This framework, let under the Procurement Act 2023, gives UK schools, colleges and education establishments access to temporary, fixed-term teachers, and permanent education support staff and non-teaching staff.
Description
You will be able to access a range of industry accredited suppliers providing workers, including but not limited to:
- teachers
- educational support staff such as teaching assistants and cover supervisors
- headteachers and senior leaders
- admin, clerical, finance, IT, maintenance, caterers, cleaners and drivers
All educational establishments in the public sector can use this agreement, including:
- schools (primary and secondary, maintained and academies)
- further and higher education establishments
- nurseries and pre-schools
- other public sector organisations with educational needs such as local authorities, central government departments, hospitals and prisons
The agreement will replace RM6238 Supply Teachers and Temporary Staffing (STaTS).
Benefits
- background screening of workers and safeguarding which complies with the Department for Education (DfE) Keeping Children Safe in Education standards
- after 12 weeks in post, you can transfer a temporary worker to a permanent role at no extra cost (subject to 4 weeks notice)
- compliance with Procurement Act 2023
- consistent pre-negotiated terms and conditions
- transparency of costs: you can see how much the worker is getting paid each day and how much the agency or supplier is taking
- access dedicated support from our category team
Product types
Lot 1: Teachers and Education Recruitment
Use our agency selection tool to hire temporary, fixed term, and permanent workers directly from a recruitment agency.
Lot 2: Managed Service
Appoint a managed service provider (including Master and Neutral Vend models) who will provide all of your staffing needs. The recruitment business will use their supply chain of other agencies to support meeting your staffing needs where needed.
Customer engagement
In November 2024 and March 2025 we have held 2 rounds of customer engagement to provide an overview of our ideas for the new framework and gather feedback. These sessions included both new and existing STaTS customers, and consisted of webinar discussions and surveys.
The answers from the webinars and the survey responses have been collected to create an updated agreement that includes the workforce services you need.
Email supplyteachers@crowncommercial.gov.uk if you have any questions or require a one on one discussion.
Supplier engagement
We held our first round of supplier engagements in December 2024. These included sessions with our accreditation bodies: the Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC) and the Association Of Professional Staffing Companies (APSCo).
The second round was held in March 2025. These sessions included webinar discussions with our current suppliers to discuss the proposed changes to the framework. Questionnaires were also distributed and the responses were collected to guide us in our final decisions.
View the Supply Teachers and Education Recruitment stakeholder engagement power point slides presented in our engagement sessions for more information.
Following the submission of our Final Business Case (FBC) we will be holding briefing sessions for interested parties which will cover the finalised plan for the framework. Dates for these briefings are below:
- Non-APSCo and REC Members – 17 September 2025
- REC Members – 18 September 2025
- APSCo Members – 1 October 2025
To participate in the briefing session on 17 September email the team using supplyteachers@crowncommercial.gov.uk. REC and APSCO members will be invited to the respective trade organisation sessions.
In preparation for Invitation To Tender (ITT), use Crown Commercial Service guidance on Third party bid writers.
Important links
| Pipeline notice | Read pipeline notice |
| Preliminary market engagement notice | Read preliminary market engagement notice |
| Planned procurement notice | Read planned procurement notice |
| Contract Notice in Find a Tender (FTS) | Not available yet |
| Tender documents | Not available yet |
Timeline
| Activity | Estimated dates |
| Pre-market engagement | October 2024 onwards |
| Drafting of procurement documentation | September 2025 |
| Publication of find a tender (FTS) notice | October 2025 |
| Framework Award | April 2026 |