I know you mentioned Primary Schools but the Govt have just announced that Academy Schools can hire unqualified teachers :_
Academies given power to hire unqualified teachers
Thousands of state schools will be allowed to hire unqualified staff to teach for the first time because ministers believe the best teachers are “born, not made”.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education...-teachers.html
This is potentially good news for me. I need to lobby the governing body of my sons school to ditch the non essential "Performing Arts" Dept and replace it with a Good Citizenship and Common Sense Dept - I will be happy to head it up in return for £80000 pa, 9am-3pm working hours, 13 weeks holiday, loads of inset days and a fat gold plated pension
