It was a further two years before the local education authority approved him as a supply teacher.
That means there is one class left in the school without a teacher unless a supply teacher is employed.
What will happen if a teacher or even a head teacher is taken ill and a supply teacher is needed urgently?
Doing the sum is easy: it costs about £120 a day for a supply teacher.
I welcome the proposal to set up a supply teacher pool.
Anybody can set up as a supply teacher agency in their front room without being vetted.
They are concerned because they know that the problem of the supply teacher may get worse.
What you are concerned with is the cost of £100 a day that is needed to get a supply teacher.