Specialist teachers of children with sensory impairment play a vital role in ensuring that these children make good progress and achieve good outcomes. This report provides evidence of widespread concern over a shortage of these specialist teachers. Urgent action is needed to ensure adequate funding for training new specialist teachers, and to ensure robust and coordinated succession planning and recruitment. We make a number of practical recommendations for how these and other issues can be addressed.

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