The report also highlights the government has been «consistently» below
teacher recruitment targets for the subjects with the highest turnover rates (science, maths and languages).
The department was also criticised for failing to
hit teacher recruitment target for four years running, with 14 out of 17 secondary subjects left with unfilled training places last year.
The government has failed to
meet teacher recruitment targets for four years in a row, and the paper promises that the DfE will «ensure that enough talented teachers are recruited, wherever they're needed».
Shadow education secretary Angela Rayner said: «This government has created a crisis at every stage of our education system, missing its own
teacher recruitment targets in five consecutive years while thousands of teachers are lost from FE.»
«For the last eight years, you have had a government that has ignored you, and they've pursued their ideological chaos and failed to pay attention to the fallout,» Rayner said, criticising
missed teacher recruitment targets, the retention crisis and rising child poverty levels.
The department was also criticised for failing to
hit teacher recruitment target for four years running, with 14 out of 17 secondary subjects facing unfilled training places last year.
Shadow education secretary Tristram Hunt said: «For three years in a row, David Cameron's government has missed its
own teacher recruitment targets, creating a crisis situation.
The NAO report criticised the Department for Education for failing to hit
teacher recruitment target for four years running, and included figures which seemingly vindicated calls of a growing recruitment crisis from beleaguered headteachers.
The revelation comes just a week after a National Audit Office report highlighted how the government had missed
its teacher recruitment targets for four years in a row.
The shadow education secretary claims the government is missing
its teacher recruitment targets.
However, Labour says the government has already failed to meet
its teacher recruitment targets.
It comes as the government missed
its teacher recruitment targets for the last five years, and in 2016 - 17, the number of graduates starting initial teacher training fell on the previous year.