One in three teachers takes time off for stress

Anthony Butcher · 13-12-2004, 03:08 AM

http://education.guardian.co.uk/scho...372446,00.html

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A third of all teachers working in schools in England and Wales took sick leave last year as a result of job-related stress, according to a survey published today.

It claimed that more than 213,000 days were lost to stress, anxiety or depression suffered by the teaching profession at an annual cost to schools of over £19m.

Teachers were off, on average, for 11.5 days in 2003 - more than two full working weeks - according to the study by the Schools Advisory Service.

The main three reasons given were stress, broken bones and sciatica (pains in the back, hip and outer leg).

Stress was largely ascribed to excessive workload, lack of support from management and co-workers, lack of communication and the pressures of having to deal with poorly behaved children and difficult parents.

mkpdavies · 13-12-2004, 11:42 AM

The real reason for the stress they are suffering is they have no control. All trust has been taken away from the frontline, and they have to worry about upsetting the PC brigade, fill out loads of useless bean counting forms and worry about targets all the time.

UKIP will end all this madness, and make the teaching profession noble and respected once again! The same goes for other areas of public life, such as all the emergency services!

13-12-2004, 11:42 AM	#2 (permalink)
mkpdavies Uber Member Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Woking Posts: 30,832 Party: Libertarian Party	The real reason for the stress they are suffering is they have no control. All trust has been taken away from the frontline, and they have to worry about upsetting the PC brigade, fill out loads of useless bean counting forms and worry about targets all the time. UKIP will end all this madness, and make the teaching profession noble and respected once again! The same goes for other areas of public life, such as all the emergency services! __________________ http://brits4ronpaul.blogspot.com/ http://wokinglibertarians.blogspot.com/ http://lpuk.org My ignore list Labour, Blue Labour, Lib Dems

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