Mental Health

A recent teacher well-being index shows that over a third of education professionals report that their job had made them feel stressed most or all of the time in the past few weeks, compared to 18% of the UK workforce overall. 65% of educators say that they wouldn’t feel confident in disclosing mental health problems or unmanageable stress to their employer. The World Health Organisation predicts that mental ill health will be the leading cause of absence by 2030 if we don’t do more to actively support people. So, it is vital to creating workplaces where people feel safe to ask for help (in the same way as they would for physical illness).