The UK’s health and safety watchdog should investigate teacher suicides and launch an “immediate” inquiry into work-related stress in the education sector, experts have said.
An article in medical research journal the BMJ also calls for MPs on the education select committee to conduct a separate probe of Ofsted’s impact on the welfare of teaching staff.
Its authors, Professors Sarah Waters and Martin Mckee, argued teachers are a group that “faces immense pressure at work”, citing responses from The Teacher Wellbeing Index which found 75 per cent of education staff were stressed in 2022.
“Although the high level of mental health problems has many causes, concerns about Ofsted clearly play a significant part,” they wrote.
