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Winning the wellbeing war for teachers

Julian Stanley makes the moral and financial case to government and school leaders about the crucial need to support teacher wellbeing

Many of you working in the classroom day after day know how vital it is to keep yourself healthy and in top shape. The sad truth however is that teachers’ wellbeing isn’t taken seriously enough by every governing body or headteacher. 

Just 31 per cent of the general British public think teachers are currently working too hard, according to a YouGov poll we recently commissioned, while 18 per cent went as far to say that they think teachers aren’t working hard enough! 

This just doesn’t add up with the results of our health survey, which found in October last year that 88 per cent of people working in education experienced stress in the previous two years. 

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