Changing curriculums, potential redundancies, rising workloads, and uncertainties about the government’s continued expansion of the academies programme: no wonder more teachers say they are feeling stressed.
The Education Support Partnership supports around 60,000 teachers a year with the aim of boosting their health, happiness and wellbeing. Chief executive Julian Stanley, says that recently the charity has seen a growing demand for its support. In 2015, its Education Sector Health Survey found that 84 per cent of respondents were suffering from stress and between 2014 and 2015, it saw a five per cent rise in stress-related calls.
Mr Stanley is not surprised in this growth. He says that teachers who get in touch are expressing “feelings of uncertainty that they are potentially facing redundancy, an increasing workload, and issues around student behaviour”, he says.
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