London Borough of Bexley partners

To strengthen our exisitng pool with Lambeth, Southwark and Wandsworth Local Authorities (LAs Supreme Education, the online teacher recruitment consultancy, has partnered with the London Borough of Bexley allowing schools across the boroughs to have access and control of Supreme's tailored online service to accurately source teachers for emergency cover, saving the boroughs an estimated total of £1 million a year.

This new partnership between Supreme Education and Bexley is due to go live at Easter and we are currently busy recruiting qualified teachers to work in local Bexley schools. Teachers can simply register their interest on the Supreme website or call 0845 450 8866 to book a face to face appointment

This South London borough collaboration takes advantage of both the councils' local expertise and Supreme Education's recruitment experience and investment into the technology. With 70% of roles needing to be filled within an hour, this combination will reduce schools' dependency on private agencies with a quality assured service that provides a real recruitment alternative to schools.

Gareth Williams, managing director, Supreme, comments: "Schools inevitably need teaching cover, but not at the price of disrupting pupil learning. The LA collaboration will enable schools to efficiently staff their classrooms in emergencies whilst increasing access and improving transparency to the most appropriate and available teachers; reducing administrative time and costs, but most importantly matching teachers skills and school requirements as closely as possible."

Gareth concludes on receiving news on passing of a very successful Quality Mark audit: "Supreme have created a simple, no nonsense solution to the Local Authority and schools' concerns over quality, safeguarding and rising costs. Our partnership with Bexley will allow schools and local teachers access to a service that will ultimately benefit pupils".