School leaders and teachers now work even more hours than last year despite a push by ministers to reduce workload, a government survey has found.
The latest wave of the working lives of teachers and leaders survey shows full-time leaders’ average working week in 2023 was 58.2 hours – over 11 hours a day – up from 57.5 in 2022.
The survey polled more than 10,000 workers, and found full-time teachers’ average hours were 52.4 per week, up from 51.9 in 2022.
It comes after the DfE assembled a workload reduction taskforce with an aim of reducing the average working week by five hours.
