While Boris and his Cabinet are figuring ways to extricate us from the European Union, (not Europe that will remain a continent no matter what!) my team have been to Spain to recruit Spanish staff. Why on earth? Because the recruitment challenge shows no sign of easing up.
What are we facing? The turnover of staff remains at a minumum of 25 per cent, higher than national averages of between 15 per cent and 18 per cent. The number of qualified staff has plummeted from 83 per cent four years ago to 42 per cent.
At LEYF our turnover sticks at about 18 per cent. This costs us up to £15,000 per candidate to recruit. The NDNA tell us the the sector has shelled out £896m on recruitment costs last year. One would almost suspect a government plot to close us down and subsume our services into schools… Perhaps we need to remind them again that costs will be higher in schools!
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