Frameworks, Infrastructure, and the Future of Supply Staffing in Schools

The school supply staffing market will undergo a structural shift in 2025/26.

Today, individual schools shoulder the admin and risk of sourcing, negotiating, and managing agency supply on their own. No shared data, procurement scale or unified pricing model.

That’s changing.

MATs and government bodies are building a new generation of staffing frameworks: structured, compliant models for schools to procure supply staff through agencies. But this time, these frameworks are underpinned by technology. Vendor Management Systems (VMS) provide the infrastructure.

At Omnijo, we’re proud to be the infrastructure partner for Harris Federation, who are bringing an innovative new staffing framework to the sector. This framework connects agencies and schools through a common platform, giving all parties total transparency, clean compliance, and far less admin.

Why does this matter?

For school & MAT leaders:

Frameworks reduce risk, bring down costs, and give leaders the confidence (and visibility) that supply is being handled fairly and consistently right across their Trust.

For agencies:

Frameworks unlock access to dozens (or hundreds) of schools through a single tender process, and remove the chaotic one-school-at-a-time sales effort. The right VMS manages timesheets, invoicing, and compliance in one place.

The wider benefit?

Data. For the first time, the education sector is building the tools to understand what’s happening in the supply staffing market. This will help MATs and policy makers make better decisions, protect teachers, and fix systemic inefficiencies.

Frameworks are becoming infrastructure. The agencies and schools who engage early will help shape how the market works for years to come.