It is a new year and a new school term and with it come continued pledges from the government to address the teacher recruitment and retention crisis. A House of Commons briefing paper published in December states that the government is aware of workload as “the most frequently cited reason for teachers wanting to leave the profession”.
The interim findings of Ofsted’s Teacher Wellbeing and Workload Survey (November 2018) indicate that 48 per cent of the teachers surveyed said they worked in their free time every day and 70 per cent of senior leaders stated that they did this too. Workload was one of the most frequently mentioned negative influences on mental and physical health along with pupil behaviour and marking.
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