Primary School Teachers

EDM number 766 in 2014-15, proposed by Alan Meale on 04/02/2015.
Categorised under the topics of Schools and Teachers.

That this House is aware that the Government’s own statistics show that the average primary school teacher works for at least 60 hours per week, a workload which has increased by 10 per cent since 2010, with many of those employed in this field considering leaving their profession; notes that much of this increase is connected with high levels of administration and accountability programmes which deflect teachers away from their tasks of educating children in their care; and calls on the Government to respond to teaching trade unions who recently advocated an eight-step programme in response to the Education Department’s Workload Challenge survey.

This motion has been signed by a total of 27 MPs.