Schools with high levels of disadvantage are finding it more difficult to recruit high-quality teachers than those with less advantaged cohorts, new analysis suggests. A new report by SchoolDash and Teacher Tapp shines a light on how schools with poorer pupils are still struggling to recruit teachers they deem “strong”, and are more likely to hire candidates they have doubts about. One of government’s core policy ambitions is to halve the disadvantage gap between pupils, by the time they finish secondary school. Schools broadly find recruitment easier… An earlier Teacher Tapp and SchoolDash report found the teacher labour market is “contracting” with secondary vacancies hitting an historic low. It suggested this is because schools are anticipating falling pupils rolls, while a weak wider labour market is suppressing teacher turnover. Against this backdrop, the new report finds schools are generally finding it “markedly easier” to recruit than two years ago. The proportion of teachers reporting no applications or a weak pool of candidates at the school they were working in within the last year has almost …