A leaked government report has laid bare the school workload crisis, with two in five school leaders working “unacceptable” 12-hour days.
The long-awaited “working lives of teachers and leaders” survey shows that a classroom teachers’ working week has reduced by less than an hour in three years, while leaders work longer on average than they did in 2019.
At that rate it would take more than six years to realise education secretary Gillian Keegan’s pledge to reduce teacher workload by five hours a week.
The survey, completed last spring by 11,000 school staff, has not yet been made public by the Department for Education.
