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TL;DR: Approaching the winter months, staff absences increase considerably, leaving many schools and nurseries to deal with last-minute staffing needs. With Humly’s Digital Marketplace and Humly Express, your urgent needs get sorted urgently.
Every school and nursery leader knows the pattern: as the temperature drops, staff absences rise.
Winter illness, flu, and seasonal viruses push absence rates to almost double pre-COVID levels, leaving schools scrambling to cover classrooms at the last minute.
Finding quality educators at the last moment can be tricky.
But not at Humly.
When you have an urgent booking need, our digital marketplace ensures it’s instantly seen by every single educator who meets it. And Humly Express is even faster.
With Humly, you’ll always have a fast, simple, and fair way to keep your children’s learning uninterrupted.
An “urgent booking” is when a school or nursery needs supply staff with little or no notice – often same day, sometimes within an hour or two. These requests typically arise from:
Urgent cover is critical for your classroom continuity.
Without it, permanent staff absorb the workload (increasing burnout), lessons get cancelled, and students fall behind.
But traditional supply agencies aren’t set up to address your urgent needs swiftly. They use slow, outdated processes (phone, email) to meet your urgent cover needs, contacting educators one at a time.
Want to see something better?
Our digital marketplace connects schools and nurseries directly with a broad selection of top, local educators. When you post an urgent request, it’s instantly visible to all qualified staff in your area.
The Humly Difference:
Our digital marketplace removes delays, inflated costs, and gives you supply staff fulfilment when you need it most. It was the fastest way to sort your urgent needs.
But then we launched Humly Express.
Humly’s digital marketplace instantly sends out your bookings request to every educator who meets your needs – that’s fast.
But Humly Express offers you on-call educators who’ve already agreed to work and are waiting to be told where to go – that’s faster than fast.
How it works:
We’ve secured +1k Express Slots throughout the month of September. If your school or nursery has an urgent booking need, we’ve already got your solution.
You just have to go to the Humly Booking Portal or call us.
As winter approaches, so does the certainty of your rising absence rates.
But it doesn’t have to mean chaos, stress, and spiralling costs.
Humly provides a faster, fairer, and more transparent way to meet your urgent supply staff needs, helping you stay focused on what matters most: your children and their learning.
In 2025, Humly Educators have booked +700 jobs within 10 minutes.
Yes — plus right to work, references, and safeguarding training verified.
Yes — with the press of a button, you can request preferred educators through the Humly Booking Portal (or when you call us).
Yes — when posting your urgent request, you can add those requirements; we match accordingly.
Traditional agencies contact educators by email or phone. Humly’s digital marketplace sends your request to every educator instantly and simultaneously. And with Humly Express, we have on-call educators ready to work.
