Staff wellbeing

The latest news, analysis and professional advice on staff wellbeing, including workload, flexible working, school safety and teacher retention initiatives

Thursday

9th Nov 2023

Tales of the unexpected: how to handle strange conversations
From relationship advice to eyeshadow ideas, leaders can face left-field questions from staff that veer into the personal – something Rob Ford says requires a good poker face
Tales of the unexpected: How to handle strange conversations

Wednesday

8th Nov 2023

Ofsted reports ‘opaque’ without grades, warns Gibb
Schools minister tells MPs that ditching single-word judgements will lead to people pulling out lines from a report ‘like a theatre review’
Nick Gibb has warned that Ofsted reports will become opaque without single word judgements.

Thursday

2nd Nov 2023

Weekly round-up: Teacher workload and Covid masks row
This week’s essential education news includes schools’ actions to cut workload and controversy over Gavin Williamson’s stance on masks in schools during Covid
Workload round up

Wednesday

1st Nov 2023

Revealed: How schools are trying to cut teacher workload
Five main changes that schools are making to tackle workload have been identified by research – but leaders say efforts are being hampered by a lack of staff and funding
Teacher workload
‘Leader buy-in is crucial for flexible working success’
A new NFER report reveals flexible working can boost recruitment and retention – but schools and trusts have to be proactive and willing to make it work
flexible working

Friday

27th Oct 2023

Teachers ‘taken further and further away’ from teaching
With a drop in support staff hitting teacher workload, one teaching union advises members to only take on tasks that demand ‘the skills and expertise of a teacher’
Safe crack stealth cuts

Thursday

26th Oct 2023

Weekly round-up: Ofsted chief probe and RSHE warning
This week’s essential education news includes a judge’s ruling over the Ofsted chief’s comments on home education and schools’ fears about the DfE’s latest RSHE demand
Round, up RHSE

Wednesday

25th Oct 2023

School leader burnout more than doubles
Senior leaders are being ‘broken’ by the pressures of workload, accountability and funding shortages, warns union leader
Burnout
What type of education reform is best for Scotland?
How a gathering of teachers and other key figures came to a semblance of consensus over the future of Scottish education
Paint samples

Friday

20th Oct 2023

Scottish teachers are ‘overworked and underpaid’, EIS tells UN
The union says ‘national action’ is needed on teacher workload, lack of preparation time and pay restoration
So tired

Wednesday

18th Oct 2023

Why we’ve created a menopause policy
A trust CEO explains why she’s introduced a menopause policy to try to prevent school staff from suffering at work in silence
Why we’ve created a menopause policy

Tuesday

17th Oct 2023

MAT inspections carry ‘huge risks’, MPs told
MPs have begun an inquiry into Ofsted’s work with schools – here are six highlights from the first evidence session
Ofsted inspections of multi-academy trusts are 'inevitable', MPs have been told