School leaders need suicide prevention training amid ‘mental health emergency’
All school leaders should be given suicide prevention training to help tackle a “mental health emergency” within the teaching profession, a union has said.
Teachers’ mental health is in “crisis” and some staff are being “driven to the point of suicide” by the stresses of the job, the NASUWT teaching union’s annual conference in Harrogate, Yorkshire, heard.
A motion passed at the conference called on the union’s executive to campaign for Mental Health First trained staff in all schools and colleges, as well as fully funded mandatory mental health training.
