Call for suicide training

Published date01 April 2024
Publication titleHuddersfield Daily Examiner
Teachers' mental health is in "crisis" and some staff are being "driven to the point of suicide" by the stresses of the job, the NASUWT teaching union's annual conference in Harrogate, Yorkshire, heard

A motion passed at the conference called on the union's executive to campaign for Mental Health First Aid trained staff in all schools and colleges, as well as fully funded mandatory mental health training.

Delegates at the union's conference on Sunday heard of teachers who had suicidal thoughts - and in some cases had taken their own lives.

Delegates voted for the union to campaign for suicide prevention training for all school leaders, as well as...

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