England’s teaching workforce lost a whopping 2.6 million working days to sickness last year. Data for the 2022/23 school year, recently released by the government, has revealed that more than 66% of the country’s 468 thousand full time equivalent teachers took time off for health reasons throughout the year - an average of eight days each.
The government’s workforce census showed 44,002 new teachers entered the workforce last year - 3,900 fewer than the year before - but 43,522 left it. We asked people from across the UK why they thought teachers might be so affected by absenteeism, and whether being overworked had anything to do with it.
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