Sentences with phrase «teacher sickness absence»
Teacher burnout can be costly — the Audit Commission calculated in 2011 that teacher sickness absence costs more than # 500 million — while our research already shows there could be a link between a teacher's health and their students» outcomes.
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Towergate is the longest standing provider of staff absence insurance to schools and academies, providing cover for teachers and support staff who are unable to work due to sickness, accident, jury service or disciplinary suspension.
Nearly half of teachers expect to have to deal with an increase in redundancies in the next two to three years and more than a third (37 % and 36 %) expect an increase in long - term sickness and repetitive short - term absences.
Mental health issues result in teachers suffering from long term sickness, meaning that temporary members of staff are required to cover these absences.
One final ugly statistic is that 55 per cent of teachers had at least one period of sickness absence during the 2013/14 academic year.
An increasing use of supply teachers to cover sickness absence is affecting pupils» learning, two critical reports have warned.
Half of teacher absences were due to sickness, a fifth were due to teacher training and development and 10 % were because of teachers attending meetings.
This has recently be reiterated by the ECJ in the case of Sobczysyn v Szkola Postawowa w Rzeplinie C - 178 / 15, which involved a Polish teacher who was unable to take her scheduled holiday before the end of the holiday year due to sickness absence.