Campaign investigations
Ten connected investigations into how teacher employment works, how decisions are made and what the published records can actually establish.
Evidence checked 2026-09-16. Gaps stay visible instead of being converted into zeros or assumptions.
How to read this section
Each investigation separates what a document says from what would require further evidence. Published policies describe rules; responses describe recorded answers; neither automatically proves how every individual case was handled.
Permanency · Temporary contracts
The reviewed documents show that qualifying service is only one part of the route. Councils describe different windows, continuity rules, application processes and outcomes.
Temporary contracts · Continuity
The research separates a legitimate temporary need from a continuing role. It sets out the post history, funding, vacancy and service records needed before drawing conclusions.
Funding · Workforce planning
Funding announcements, allocations, staffing conditions and permanent-job outcomes are different stages. The public site keeps those stages separate instead of treating an allocation as proof of a permanent post.
Recruitment · Probationers
A vacancy can pass through several staffing obligations before open recruitment. The investigation records the documented sequence without assuming that every council operates the same order.
Supply · Booking systems
Procurement records can show that a booking platform exists, but they do not show how individual bookings are ranked or distributed. The investigation separates the platform, council rules and actual allocation outcomes.
Supply · Absence cover
The investigation treats cover demand as a separate question from teacher availability. A supply list can contain available teachers while a school is still operating under separate authorisation or funding rules.
Supply · Permanent employment
Permanent supply is not a new idea. Historical and current records show several models, but names alone do not establish guaranteed hours, current operation or effectiveness.
Fair Work · Employment security
The investigation uses the published Fair Work dimensions as a benchmark for questions about security, opportunity, fulfilment, respect and effective voice. It does not assign councils a campaign score.
Statistics · Employment security
Headcount, post FTE, employment type, pay collections and supply-list entries answer different questions. The explainer prevents a single headline from being treated as a complete measure of secure employment.
Council decisions · Budgets
The Record should connect statements to proposals, decisions, implementation evidence and measured outcomes without collapsing those stages into one.
See the system around the evidence
Move through qualification, temporary work, supply and local permanency routes without implying that every teacher follows the same path.
