This week on the Tes News podcast the team discuss our exclusive report that the government is poised to refresh its teacher recruitment and retention strategy amid worsening staff shortages.

With Department for Education officials drawing up plans to review its workforce approach for a post-Covid world, focusing on flexible working, the Tes team ask why this is happening now and what experts believe is needed to solve the current recruitment and retention problems.

Join Tes news editor Mary-Louise Clews and reporter Matilda Martin as they dive into the story and ask our special guest - government adviser and workforce expert Professor Sam Twiselton OBE - what she believes the strategy should aim to achieve.

More on the recruitment and retention strategy

• DfE set to refresh teacher recruitment strategy amid crisis
• Review workforce strategy, NIoT chief tells DfE
• Secondary ITT recruitment ‘to fall short of target’ again

Here’s what else schools need to know this week

• Revealed: The 15 schools leading a £15m language hub scheme
• Disadvantaged pupils get seven months’ progress boost from language scheme
• “Nearly half” of primaries and special schools face in-year deficits
• D&T teachers ‘rummage in skips’ for materials, MPs told