Union calls for suicide prevention training following head's death

Published date02 April 2024
Publication titleEvening Chronicle
Teachers' mental health is in "crisis" and some staff are being "driven to the point of suicide" by the stress of the job, the NASUWT teaching union's annual conference in Harrogate, Yorkshire, heard

A motion called on the union's executive to campaign for Mental

Health First Aid trained staff in all schools, as well as fully funded mandatory mental health training.

Delegates at the union's conference heard of teachers who had suicidal...

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