Claim: The overall teacher vacancy rate is 0.3% and has remained under 1% for the past 15 years.
Fact-check: There's only so much the data can tell us about teacher vacancies - Full Fact
Verdict: that's correct, but the rate has been rising, albeit from a very low level. the data is thought not to fully reflect difficulties in teacher recruitment.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Amy Sippitt
Date published: 2016-04-12T00:00:00