SCHOOLS — TEACHER FLYING SQUAD
1006. Hon DONNA FARAGHER to the Minister for Education and
Training:
I refer to the Department of
Education's teacher flying squad, which is utilised by government
schools to fill urgent teaching vacancies until a suitable teacher is sourced.
How many requests has the department received from schools seeking access to
teaching services from the teacher flying squad in the 2022 school year, to
date?
Hon SUE
ELLERY replied:
I thank the honourable member for
some notice of the question. Before I give the honourable member the number, I will
make the point that 2022 has been the most difficult year for schools dealing
with absent staff as they came down with COVID. I want to thank members of the
teacher flying squad who made themselves available at short notice to assist
those schools facing such difficulty, certainly in the first half of 2022.
In 2022 to date, the department has
fulfilled 289 requests for teacher flying squad support.