The conference heard how excessive workload and working hours are adversely affecting the health and wellbeing of teachers, contributing to the growing crisis in recruitment and retention, and ultimately affecting standards.
Addressing delegates at Cardiff’s Millennium Centre, executive member Keith Muncey, said: “Complaining does nothing. We have to get to a point where we do something about it. We condemn excess working hours. If you ask any teacher how work is going the answer will be the same. A recent survey found that 80 per cent of teachers said workload was the number one issue.”
Chris Keates, general secretary of the NASUWT, said: “Teachers are exhausted and their health and wellbeing is deteriorating.
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