That crisis, 13 years ago, led to schools in England scouring the globe for talent and the government relaxing the rules on support staff teaching,
as headteachers struggled to recruit.
Mr Herrington said that such efforts may involve pairing
struggling schools with others, but would also involve working with academy sponsors to find out if there were additional ways in which they could be supported, including through things such
as the DfE's new Talented Leaders programme which encourages high - performing
headteachers to consider working in lower - performing parts of the country.
Simon Knight, deputy
headteacher at Frank Wise school in Oxford (pictured), said he was worried that multi-academy trusts (MATs) saw secondary and primary schools
as their «leader» and «
struggles to see» where special schools would «fit in within that community».