Move to centralise school job advertising

Teaching assistants will be able to advertise themselves to schools on a new government-funded school recruitment web site for England, to be launched in the autumn.
The Schools Recruitment Service has been set up to cut the cost of job advertising to schools and local authorities. They will be able to recruit teachers and support staff through the site by advertising vacancies directly but also by trawling through pre-registered job candidates.
The new web site is to be run by a private company, Tribal. It will be fully funded by the government to start with, gradually become self-funding over the first two years. It's not clear from the publicity whether job candidates would have to eventually pay to register their details.
According to the Deparment for Children, Schools and Families nearly 100,000 teaching vacancies are currently advertised each year – with an annual teacher turnover of 20 per cent. In addition to this, an estimated 50,000 non-teaching positions in schools are advertised annually.
The new service is likely to hit the TES newspaper where most teaching vacancies are advertised but it may also affect smaller specialist agencies.