Angus Council has agreed an action plan in response to the teacher shortage at primary and secondary schools in the county.
Concerns had been raised about the current number of teacher vacancies in schools at a meeting of the children and learning committee.
The council is required to maintain teacher numbers in order to receive grant payments from the Scottish Government.
Committee convener Sheena Welsh said: “Over the summer period we offered 69 permanent contracts (to primary school teachers). We only needed 31, so that was 38 more than we needed.
“We filled 31 vacancies and 38 additional teachers initially accepted, but then some teachers were offered posts nearer their homes and a lot of them withdrew.
“So we started the new session three teachers down in primary.
“At the start of December there were eight vacancies, but last month we appointed five teachers so we are currently short of three teachers in primary.
“This problem with teacher recruitment is a nationwide problem and we are actually a lot better off here than in many other areas.”
There are also currently 16 vacancies in secondary schools and an attempt to create a pool of primary supply teachers over the summer was also unsuccessful.
Mrs Welsh added: “There is more of a problem in secondary. We are short in the areas of national shortage but we are trying to recruit teachers for these positions.”CorrectionAngus Council offered primary school teaching jobs to 69 candidates during the summer for 31 positions.
When term started in August there were three positions unfilled.
An earlier version of this report wrongly stated that just three people accepted roles.
We apologise for the mistake.