The union's annual survey on school leadership recruitment found a third of primary and special school head teacher jobs were unfilled after one round of advertising. A third of schools that re-advertised posts were still unable to recruit and had to re-advertise again or make other arrangements, with special schools finding it harder than primary schools to appoint after several adverts.
More than a fifth of secondary school head teacher jobs were also left empty after an initial advert, and one in four of those that re-advertised were unable to appoint.
In previous years the survey found London schools struggled most to recruit head teachers, but this year schools throughout England had trouble finding leaders.
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