According to the Education Support charity’s 2023 index, educator wellbeing has reached its lowest level in five years, with stress, insomnia and burnout all continuing to rise and working in schools described as “unsustainably demanding”.
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MP Robert Halfon, chair of the Education Select Committee, said he very much hopes primary schools reopen tomorrow, where possible SCHOOLS should not be “revolving doors, open one day and shut the next”, a parliamentary education leader stated today. Amid calls from unions and teachers’ bodies for all primary schools to remain closed due to the risk of the spread of Covid-19, when the new term begins tomorrow, MP Robert Halfon conceded it was, “a difficult tight rope to walk.” But the Conservative member for Harlow, who chairs Parliament’s Education Select Committee, pointed to medical experts’ views that children are at low risk of infection and that teachers are at no more risk than other professions of contracting the virus.