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Educators are facing ‘significant challenges’, says headteacher
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11/07/2024
Lisa Tunnell of the NEU said "fourteen years of funding cuts have stripped education budgets to the bone and educators are paying the price."
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Hi, my name's David Bradshaw. I'm a headteacher at Hilbert Junior School in Luton. Where you've
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got schools where turnover of staff is quite high, that can have significant challenges
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in terms of being able to do the job and then the additional work to support the children
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as well. And we are seeing that in schools a lot where we are teachers, but actually
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we're a lot more than that now. It's really hard in schools at the moment. I think there
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are challenges there in terms of recruitment, trying to recruit teachers as well. It has
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been difficult and I know the new government is looking to address that immediately. So
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fingers crossed, fingers crossed things will look a lot brighter in the future.
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Loads of teachers going on strike. It seems like they're sort of crying out for a bit
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of help. The latest one that I saw, teacher absenteeism. So the number of sick days taken
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by teachers. Could that be down to the stress related to supporting students with these
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extra needs? I imagine seeing so many students who are struggling does take its toll.
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Yeah. Yeah. That's a difficult one to answer really. It really is because there's a whole
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range of reasons that could affect that. Teachers tend to build up a resilience to a lot of
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illness due to the nature of them being in schools around lots of children and you build
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up that resilience. And I think over COVID, you've probably lost a bit of that resilience
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because you haven't been so much around that. And, you know, it's a case of building that
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up again. And, you know, that does take time. But, you know, there are challenges in schools
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now, you know, more challenges than we've had previously. I think that actually, you
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know, will take their toll. It will take their toll. And, you know, it's up to leaders
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to ensure that's managed well.
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