The Guardian view on the teacher shortage: flexibility and career breaks could help

To tackle staff shortages, jobs in schools and other public services must be made more attractiveWithout teachers, schools can’t do their job. Recognising the problems caused by shortages, Labour made the recruitment of 6,500 new ones a key plank of its education offer to voters in England – one funded by VAT on private school fees. Now a report from the charity Teach First, advocating flexibility and an entitlement to career breaks, attempts to flesh out what improved working condit