Since qualifying as a teacher, finding stable employment has been incredibly difficult. I have continued to work across different schools and settings, including both mainstream and ASN, gaining experience and developing professionally, yet I am still reliant
Scotland's teacher-led campaign
Stable work for
Scotland's
teachers.
Good education needs continuity. We campaign for stable contracts, predictable work and secure incomes for teachers across Scotland.
01 / Our purpose
Teaching demands commitment.
Teachers need secure work.
A teacher should not have to wait for a call to know whether they can work or pay their bills. Teachers need contracts they can build a life around. We gather teachers’ accounts, research employment practices and ask decision-makers for secure jobs.
Meet the campaignOur demands
What we’re calling for
- 01
Stop passing responsibility. Fund secure jobs together.
One joint plan. Named responsibilities. Funded jobs and public results.
- 02
Give experienced teachers a fair route to secure work.
Experience should open doors. Secure employment must be accessible at every career stage.
- 03
Count the whole workforce.
Measure the qualified teachers seeking work—and how much work they actually get.
- 04
Make employment guarantees inclusive and protect induction.
Fund additional secure work. Protect induction. Include teachers already seeking jobs.
- 05
Plan training around sustainable employment and schools’ needs.
Connect training decisions to funded jobs, local needs and the teachers already seeking work.
After the Teacher Induction Scheme
23.5%of the 2024/25 TIS cohort were in a full-time permanent post at the September 2025 census.
Permanent employment is one indicator. This figure alone does not tell us how stable every teacher’s work or income is.
Scottish Government · Table 1.6 ↗02 / The evidence
Qualification does not guarantee
stable work.
Compare teacher employment across councils, sectors and years, with definitions and links to the original sources.
See the underlying dataTeacher numbersFOI investigation
Inside the teacher-numbers agreement
A letter obtained through freedom of information helped expose the detail of the teacher-numbers agreement.
Tes reported the campaign's findings on 27 January 2025. The article examines the exemptions and the campaign's response.
Read the investigation coverage03 / Teacher voices
Teachers’ experiences of insecure work
Teachers describe how temporary contracts and supply work affect their income, careers and lives outside school.
Explore teacher voicesPublic findings
What councils told us
Findings from council responses, with the source and context for each figure.
144completed the induction scheme in 2024–25
Probationer completion
144 completed TIS by June 2025: 75 primary and 69 secondary.
Context and source
Authority response; allocation/non-completion referred to an earlier request.
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32teachers achieved permanency in 2023/24
Teacher permanency through accrual
Teachers achieving permanency: 2021/2022: 25, 2022/2023: 38, 2023/2024: 32
Context and source
Archived dashboard status (April 2026): Successful; no inference is made about teachers outside the reported process.
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8–14supply teachers deployed per day during census week
Census-week supply deployment
The council recorded 8, 14, 12, 12 and 10 supply teachers deployed Monday to Friday during 9–13 September 2024.
Context and source
Successful response; counts are authority-specific.
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