Useful tools and references for people working in supply.
This section brings together the practical parts of Supply Teaching in one place, from checking your rate to exploring the market and finding the right guide for where you are now.
No sign up required. No recruitment pitch.
Check your pay
Use the Pay Checker to compare your current rate with recent rates shared by other people working in supply.
It is designed to give you context, not tell you exactly what you should be earning.
Explore the supply market
See what people are sharing in different parts of the country.
Market pages can show things such as typical rates, response levels and where the picture is strongest.
Read the guides
Whether you are new to supply or have been doing it for years, the guides cover the questions that come up most often.
Topics include pay, holiday pay, PAYE and umbrella companies, Agency Worker Regulations, DBS checks, safeguarding and getting more work.
Supply Pulse
Supply Pulse is designed to show how people feel about the amount of work available to them.
It is anonymous and intended to build a simple picture of whether people are getting more work than they want, about the right amount, less than they want or none at all.
Results will only be shown when there is enough information to make them useful.
New to supply?
Starting supply teaching can feel like there is a lot to work out at once.
If you are just getting started, begin with the New to Supply section for practical guidance on agencies, first days, what to take with you and how supply works.
Pay and money
Day rates are only part of the picture.
Our pay guides explain things such as holiday pay, PAYE, umbrella companies, pensions and how a day rate compares with a salary.
Rights and employment
Understand some of the rules and responsibilities that can affect supply work, including Agency Worker Regulations, DBS checks, safeguarding and cancelled bookings.
Working in supply
Practical advice for day to day life in supply, including travel, long term bookings and getting more work.
Career and development
Supply can be a route into teaching, a way back into the classroom or simply the type of work that suits you best.
This section covers ECTs, returning to teaching, cover supervision and teaching assistant roles.
Something missing?
If there is a tool, guide or resource you think would genuinely help people working in supply, let us know.
The aim is to keep building things that are useful rather than adding features for the sake of it.