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Staff wellbeing: Coming back from the brink...

When the job feels like it’s getting too much, thoughts can turn to quitting. However, many teachers have come back from the brink, as Julian Stanley explains...

At the Education Support Partnership, we hear a lot on our free confidential helpline from teachers and education staff who are stressed and feel criticised whatever they do.

“I feel set up to fail,” is a common concern among callers desperate to know how they can cope with what seems to be an overly demanding head, head of department or senior leader.

“Everything was fine until we got a new head,” is also something our telephone counsellors hear a lot.

Some teachers find the stress at work so unbearable that they leave the profession. This is often a personal tragedy for them, but it is also a huge waste for education.

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