NFER’s comprehensive annual report analyses teacher recruitment and retention trends across all school phases. Key findings show some improvement in recruitment into initial teacher training, most likely driven by deteriorating wider employment opportunities. Secondary recruitment remains below target. There is partial improvement in teacher recruitment and retention compared with previous reports, but the report warns against complacency. Falling pupil numbers are projected to reduce the numbers of teachers required in the secondary phase, but there are still shortages in some subjects and historic reductions in the number of subject specialists in some areas have not been reduced.