Latest News
15th May 2024
ESL is 30!
ESL is 30. May is a momentous month for Education Staffing Link, for 30 years ago this month our late founder, Dorothy Dakin, assigned her first team member to a school as a Supply Teacher. In truth, the story started a little earlier and whilst it had been a seed in Dorothy’s mind for […]
Read more24th April 2024
April news
We had a busy end to the spring term and have started the summer term strongly. We have seen demand for teachers remain high across KS1 and 2. We are keen to add more teachers to our supply team to meet the demands of our client schools. If you know anyone looking for supply work, […]
Read more7th February 2024
First half of Spring term news
I know we always say it but we’ve had a busy half term and we need more teachers!! Our wonderful supply team has been built largely through recommendations and referrals so we just need to continue for people to spread the word for us whereever possible please. We continue to advertise and use job boards […]
Read more20th December 2023
Second half of Autumn term news
We’ve had a busy second half of term with our regular client schools and a number of new schools. As ever, we really appreciate you spreading the word on us as an agency as we are always looking for new Teachers and Teaching Assistants. We’ve got quite a few long term assignments at the moments, […]
Read more27th September 2023
August and September News
We had a good summer undertaking essential admin and compliance tasks and registering some great new supply team members, we also managed to fit in some rest and relaxation of course. The new term has been busy so far with a mix of day to day and long term bookings for teachers and teaching assistants. […]
Read more18th July 2023
June and July News
It’s been a very busy couple of months for us here with demand for day to day and long term assignments being high. We have sent out our academic calendars to our supply team and nearly finished dropping them off to lots of our client schools and target primary schools in our area, over 100 […]
Read more24th May 2023
May News
We are looking forward to half term and hoping the sunshine continues… The office will be open from 9am – 3pm on Wednesday 31st May, Thursday 1st June and Friday 2nd June. Normal hours of 7am until 6pm will resume from Monday 5th June. We are happy to be sending gift vouchers to two of […]
Read more26th April 2023
April News
Another busy month, even with the Easter holidays. We have been focusing on registering new supply team members. We are pleased that a number of new Teaching Assistants and Teachers have joined us, thank you to all of you who have recommended us. We continue to focus on primary schools only; we have had a […]
Read more28th March 2023
March News
Another busy month for us here at ESL offices. We attended the Birmingham Diocesan Board of Education Schools Senior Leadership Conference at the beginning of the month, we were invited as we are a preferred supplier. It was great to see so many Headteachers of schools that we work with, some who we haven’t seen […]
Read more28th February 2023
February News
It’s been a very busy February with our existing client schools and various new schools contacting us for cover. Demand for Supply Teachers and Teaching Assistants has been incredibly high. We have launched a referral scheme which is easy to measure, you will receive a £50 voucher if you recommend a new supply team member […]
Read more25th January 2023
January News
We hope you’ve had a good January so far. It’s been a very busy start to the spring term for us with lots of supply needs being called in. Christmas and NYE feel like a long time ago now! In line with our corporate social responsibility, we were pleased to help several of our client […]
Read more13th December 2022
December 2022 News
As the term draws to an end, we are still busy with various day to day and long term supply needs. There seems to have been an increase in sickness leave this month which has meant a lot of juggling around cover. Thanks for your flexibility with this. We are keen to increase our supply […]
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