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Dr Bousted said: «Despite the obvious need for greater expertise amongst education professionals, just 9 per cent of school staff feel sufficiently trained to identify the signs of mental health issues in pupils.

In his session, «Managing mental health — a resilience toolkit», Robert Whitelock of Garforth Academy revealed the shocking figure that 25 per cent of school staff are susceptible to mental health problems.

The research also found that 61 per cent of school staff have seen bullying relating to racism, 44 per cent to poverty and 43 per cent to sexism.

Not exact matches

Bishop Sarah will be introduced to representatives from across the Diocese of London at St Paul's Cathedral on Monday morning, before meeting staff and students at the Urswick Secondary School in Hackney, where 70 per cent of pupils are eligible for Pupil Premium Funding.

Last year St Columba's Lochside Mission and Outreach youth programme provided more than 150 lunches daily to local children after church staff learned that the 95 per cent of children in one local primary school, who receive free school lunches and breakfasts during the school term, were at risk of hunger during the summer holidays.

Incidents of physical attacks were far more prevalent in primary schools with 48 per cent of staff reporting pupils being physically aggressive, compared with 20 per cent working at secondary level.

Over half (51 per cent) say staff numbers at their school have decreased in the last two years, with nearly two - thirds (65 per cent) saying they are not able to give pupils as much individual attention in lessons due to the loss of support staff and a similar number (64 per cent) saying pupils are not always taught by a teacher trained for the subject or age range due to the loss of teaching staff.

Forty - two per cent of staff in schools in areas of high deprivation revealed that they did not offer enough work experience placements, in comparison to the 58 per cent that stated they did.

7,550 secondary school pupils were excluded for the same reason, with 290 being permanently excluded for attacking staff, representing an increase of 11 per cent from the year before.

The survey found schools were willing to be flexible in order to recruit the right staff: 82 per cent of respondents said they had restructured roles in order to make sure they filled a post.

When one considers that supply teaching staff make up less than three per cent of school staffing costs, compared to the almost seven per cent spent on administrative and clerical staff, it's clear that agency spend is a minor factor in the budgetary difficulties some schools find themselves in.

However, they are becoming increasingly underused and underappreciated in education, with a survey by the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL) revealing that over a fifth of school staff said their school library budget has been cut by at least 40 per cent since 2010.

Forty per cent of authorities responding to an NAO survey do not believe they have sufficient resources to provide effective support to schools and almost half of those authorities are planning to reduce the amount of staff time spent on support.

«In 1977 around 28.5 per cent of teaching staff were male in primary schools Australia - wide, now they only make up about 18 per cent of teaching staff, and when we followed this trend into the future we found that by the year 2067 they will have disappeared from primary schools completely,» said lead author Dr Kevin McGrath.

The survey suggested that 52 per cent of UK school support staff have experienced stress, anxiety or depression with 42 per cent claiming they had difficulties trying to complete their work on time.

The AET is proposing to cut the number of buildings and estates staff in schools by over 25 per cent, resulting in at least 34 redundancies across its 66 primary, special and secondary academies.

The amount spent on supply teachers accounted for six per cent of total spend on staff wages, and the BBC report suggests it is due to schools in England struggling to recruit enough teachers.

The research also found that 22 per cent of independent school staff are spending the equivalent of up to two working days on activities related to their job during evenings and weekends.

The Oxford Open Learning Trust researched official statistics from the Department for Education, which show that 63 per cent of all teaching staff in English state funded secondary schools are female - including headteachers.

Since introducing the three targeted programs and implementation model in 2016, Buchanan says the school has seen: improvements across a range of classes using the NAPLAN writing scale of up to 40 per cent; improvements in spelling using NAPLAN assessment and internal data of up to two years within a 12 month period; and its first spike in NAPLAN numeracy improvement for Years 3 and 5 (the two year groups staff focused on through the program).

Unison's survey found that 71 per cent of respondents are responsible for ensuring people visiting their school are safe to do so, with 41 per cent responsible for organising security checks to make certain new staff have no previous criminal convictions.

Around 13 per cent said they found the workload impossible to manage, while Unison highlighted there was a «crisis in health and wellbeing engulfing schools» which could lead to a «mass exodus of hard - working, dedicated staff».

According to UNISON, some schools would see the number of caretakers cut by 50 per cent, with one earmarked to lose two - thirds of its estates staff.

To hit the target, the principal and his staff will need to find a solution to the problem of the Friday dip — whole school attendance on that day of the week is around 4 per cent lower than average.

Twenty - two per cent of education staff believes that pupils have been subjected to hate crime or hate speech while at school in the last academic year.

Almost half of respondents (48 per cent) also stated that the number of supply staff at their school had decreased as they are not being replaced when they leave.

In addition to this, almost two - thirds (65 per cent) of the secondary school heads polled said that their school had cut back on teaching staff to save money.

Twenty - one per cent of primary school heads reported that their school had got rid of teaching staff, and over half (54 per cent) said their teaching assistants had been cut.

Whilst there has been opposition from anti-CCTV campaigners, the use of surveillance in the classroom is often welcomed by students, staff and parents alike, with a reported 90 per cent of secondary schools in the UK now using them.

DR: Most schools outsource for at least some services, though the larger schools often have a member of staff who might spend 10 to 20 per cent of their time taking photos of different events.

Whilst there is no doubt that EFA staff are working extremely hard in this challenging context, so are teachers and school leaders, who have had pay rises of a maximum of one per cent a year imposed on them for the duration of this parliament.»

While 83 per cent those responding to the survey said their school had a social media policy in place, over two - thirds (68 per cent) said these contained no reference to supporting their own staff should they become victims of online abuse

YouGov research, commissioned by the Education Support Partnership, shows that three quarters (75 per cent) of 1,250 school and college staff and leaders surveyed said they had experienced psychological, physical or behavioural symptoms because of work, which is significantly higher than the UK working population overall (62 per cent).

However, education secretary Justine Greening has said that rather than all teachers getting a one per cent pay rise, schools should be able to choose which members of staff get an increase, based on performance.

In primary schools, 81 per cent of all teaching staff (FTE) are female; the figure is 59 per cent in secondary schools.

A survey of over 600 ATL members working in state - funded schools in England found that 83 per cent of education staff did not think SEND pupils were adequately supported, with 58 per cent stating that pupils who are officially identified as having SEN do not receive the help they need to reach their potential.

Indeed, the latest Staff in Australian Schools study found that 90 per cent of leaders in primary and secondary schools were either satisfied or very satisfied with their jobs (although the ratings were lower than inSchools study found that 90 per cent of leaders in primary and secondary schools were either satisfied or very satisfied with their jobs (although the ratings were lower than inschools were either satisfied or very satisfied with their jobs (although the ratings were lower than in 2010).

Support in the form of teaching assistants may be set to diminish further, with more than two - thirds (68 per cent) of the 64 per cent of school leaders who need to make savings in 2017 - 18 planning to reduce their support staff.

The number of penalties issued to school and college staff for exam malpractice is up 48 per cent compared to last year, according to official figures from Ofqual.

It is believed that around 86 per cent of schools in England contain asbestos, putting the health of both teachers, support staff and children at risk.

Interventions from schools include staff working closely with parents in two - thirds (66 per cent) of schools, and counselling provision in nearly six in 10 (58 per cent) schools.

Overall, 20 per cent of education support staff, which includes school business managers, technicians, librarians, administrative workers, caretakers, cleaners and catering staff, that took part in Unison's survey reported to have experienced violence.

The survey, which was conducted by The Key, a support organisation for school leaders, has revealed that more than two - thirds (68 per cent) of schools facing budget cuts across England plan to reduce their number of support staff.

The Government must restore the value of school staff pay to 2010 pre-austerity levels, beginning with an immediate five per cent pay increase for teachers to address the growing teacher recruitment and retention crisis.

Recently, the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) warned staff that schools were due to face the first real - term cuts since the 1990s, with cuts of up to eight per cent in the next Parliament.

Then they were asked to combine and be one staff instead of three separate schools, so morale was very low... and no vision or direction, very low (as a result) attendance by students - it was around the 60 to 70 per cent mark.

Sixty - three per cent of the charity's grants were given to teachers and staff in primary and secondary schools, while 28 per cent were awarded to those working in further education.

Under the BISS distributive leadership model we have seen an increase in class teachers taking on leadership roles across the school in recent years, from 10 teacher leaders in 2014 to 12 in 2015, and 19 teacher leaders in 2016 (76 per cent of teaching staff).

Over 70 per cent of secondary school leaders say that their schools has had to cut teachers over the last year, with a similar proportion saying the same about teaching assistants or support staff.

In addition, 57 per cent of teachers said in - school counsellors would be able to better support vulnerable children, and showed how staff wished for better training to manage such issues.