Of the more than 800 school leaders surveyed, 81 per
cent reported difficulties with general recruitment, the highest rate in the four - year history of the survey.
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More extreme consequences include neglect and abuse — with sexual abuse
reported to occur at some time in the lives of 90 per
cent of the population with learning
difficulties.
The resultant stigma leaves disabled people vulnerable to neglect and abuse — with sexual abuse
reported by 90 per
cent of people with learning
difficulties.
After chemotherapy, as many as 65 per
cent of patients with breast cancer
report memory lapses,
difficulty concentrating, taking longer to complete tasks and
difficulty multitasking.
Studies have shown that up to seventy per
cent of parents of children with ADHD
report that the children have
difficulty falling asleep and that they spend a long time putting them to bed.
In the health domain, for students in all year levels
difficulty sleeping was the most frequent health complaint -
reported as occurring «every day» or «almost every day» by 16 per
cent of participants in Year 4, 14 per
cent of participants in Year 6 and 12 per
cent of participants in Year 8.
School leaders in London and the South East also
reported recruitment
difficulties due to high housing and living costs, with 63 per
cent of respondents from inner London citing this as an issue.
The survey also found that 62 per
cent of respondents
reported difficulty recruiting teachers for non-core subjects, and 65 per
cent finding recruitment more
difficulty than in previous years.
Of the primary principals who took part in the survey, four per
cent reported «major» and 17 per
cent «moderate»
difficulties in filling the vacancies; for secondary principals the figures were eight per
cent and 31 per
cent respectively.
The most recent research for the Parliamentary Office of Science & Technology
reported that 42 per
cent of employers still have
difficulties recruiting staff from science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) backgrounds.
The European Commission has found a worrying 42 per
cent of UK employers
reported difficulties recruiting skilled IT workers — above the EU average — and predicts that there will be 900,000 unfilled technical vacancies in Europe by 2015, with the number of digital and technology jobs growing at a rate of more than 100,000 a year.
Many immigrants
reported difficulties understanding English (45 per
cent), understanding the health system (38 per
cent) and communicating with their doctor (73 per
cent).
The
difficulties were
reported as causing a lot or great deal of distress to the child or disruption to the family in about 20 per
cent of those experiencing
difficulties.
Thirteen per
cent of children had a total
difficulties score that was indicative of, or bordered on, severe social, behavioural and / or emotional problems (sometimes referred to as «poor mental health» in this
report).