School leaders share a widespread appreciation of the need to make staff wellbeing a priority, but a lack of clarity and consistency about what it actually means risks the urgent, lasting progress we need.
Last year with 3,750 teachers signed off on long-term sick leave due to stress, the Health and Safety Executive moved teaching to number four in the list of the UK’s most stressful jobs.
This was backed up by Education Support Partnership’s latest Teacher Wellbeing Index, which reported rising levels of anxiety, depression and irritability in the profession.
It may not be a challenge unique to education but, as school leaders are acutely aware, the recruitment and retention crisis means clear, shared thinking and action have never been more important.
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