Workforce
Covering the challenges and opportunities facing education professionals, this section explores teacher recruitment, retention, workload management, and wellbeing strategies. From professional development opportunities to tackling burnout, we provide insights to support a sustainable teaching workforce.
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May- 2025 -6 May
Union condemns London Academy Trust over redundancies
NASUWT has today (6 May) condemned a London Academy Trust over reportedly planning redundancies despite having £21m in the bank. According to the union, the trust is “seeking to force dozens of teachers from their jobs and using underhand tactics to try and shut out unions from any meaningful consultation process”.…
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1 May
YEF calls for action as 1 in 8 teachers report sexual assault between pupils
The Youth Endowment Fund (YEF) is calling for every secondary school, college and alternative provision to have a dedicated lead to prevent violence against women and girls.It comes as a YEF-commissioned survey found that one in eight secondary school teachers reported that a child in their school committed sexual assault…
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Apr- 2025 -29 April
Disadvantaged schools face gap in teacher experience, EPI finds
There is a “substantial and persistent” gap in the teaching workforce between the most and least disadvantaged schools in England, a new report from the Education Policy Institute (EPI) has revealed. The analysis points to critical shortfalls in teacher experience, subject expertise, turnover, and absence rates, particularly in schools serving…
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23 April
Schools fail to provide wellbeing resources to teachers, NASUWT says
Many schools have failed to provide teachers with adequate facilities, resources and support systems to maintain their mental health and wellbeing, NASUWT revealed. According to NASUWT’s latest Big Question Survey, which analysed responses from 10,500 teachers across the UK, 82% of teachers think that work has negatively affected their mental…
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17 April
NAHT Cymru: make teaching attractive to control supply teacher costs
NAHT Cymru is urging the Welsh government to prioritise restoring teaching as an attractive career proposition, in response to figures sourced by the Welsh Conservative which show 16 councils spent more than £78m on supply teachers in 2023/24. While the school leaders’ union concedes that schools will always require the…
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16 April
72% of support staff NEU members work overtime, new survey finds
A total of 72% of support staff members of the National Education Union (NEU) working in state schools and academies in England and Wales, work in excess of their contracted hours, a new survey revealed. According to new data collected by the NEU from more than 3,000 support staff members,…
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15 April
Racist rhetoric ‘inevitably’ influences pupils, NAHT warns
The National Association of Head Teachers has warned that racist rhetoric in wider society inevitably influences school children, and has called for a “proactive, anti-racist approach to education”, including for all school staff to receive mandatory anti-racism training. It comes as the school leaders’ union has brought a motion to…
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14 April
NEU indicative ballet shows strike appetite despite low turnout
The National Education Union (NEU) has revealed its members have voted to reject the government’s pay offer of 2.8% for all teachers and leaders in England. Members also indicated their willingness to take strike action to secure a fully funded, significantly higher pay award to address the crisis in school…
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9 April
Third of teachers report misogynistic behaviour from pupils in last week
More than a third of secondary teachers have reported misogynistic behaviour from pupils at their school in the last week, while 40% said they felt ill-equipped to handle this conduct, according to a survey commissioned by BBC News.The BBC surveyed 6,000 secondary school teachers about their experiences of misogyny in…
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4 April
Schools face students’ mental health crisis, new data says
Schools are facing an escalating crisis in student mental health post-pandemic, new research has shown. According to the Lumii.me wellbeing platform, nearly three children in the average UK classroom are experiencing daily emotional distress. Due to the rapid rise in these challenges many schools are not equipped to handle this…
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