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2026 manifestos

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Compare the teacher-employment commitments identified in our current manifesto review. Open a cell to see the source wording and PDF page.

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SNP

Newly qualified teacher guarantee

Seek reforms supporting at least three years of employment for newly qualified teachers, including retraining unemployed qualified primary teachers.

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Teacher Jobs Guarantee for a minimum of 3 years for newly qualified teachers, including retraining into new roles in the profession for qualified primary school teachers who do not have a job.

Not an unconditional permanent-job guarantee for every qualified teacher.

Open official PDF at page 71
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Labour

Teacher employment

Recruit underemployed teachers for education recovery and improve certainty through permanent work.

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Providing jobs for teachers, recruiting underemployed teachers to deliver our education recovery programme in schools, gathering better data on the number of qualified teachers and providing greater certainty with permanent contracts and jobs.

No universal individual employment guarantee.

Open official PDF at page 90
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Recovery specialists

Use up to 2,000 reading and numeracy specialists for pupils furthest behind.

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2,000 specialist reading and numeracy teachers working directly with the children who have fallen the furthest behind.

Open official PDF at page 85
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Liberal Democrats

Probationer recruitment packages

Use three-year probationer packages for difficult-to-fill posts in specified areas.

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three-year packages for probationer teachers for specific areas.

Targeted recruitment measure, not a universal three-year guarantee.

Open official PDF at page 42
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Conservative

Rural recruitment group

Bring job-seeking teachers and rural schools together to identify employment solutions.

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working group with teachers looking for full-time work and schools in our rural communities so that solutions can be found that would allow these teachers to find potential employment.

No universal permanent-job entitlement or numerical recruitment target.

Open official PDF at page 67
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Subject conversion

Accelerate retraining from oversupplied teaching subjects into shortage areas while retaining professional standards.

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expedited conversion courses, allowing them to qualify in subjects where there are more vacancies, whilst ensuring they still have the requisite knowledge to teach these subjects.

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