Email your MP to end the teacher retention crisis

 

In 2023/24, over 37,000 teachers left the profession for reasons other than retirement. The cost of training those teachers was over £1 billion. But the real cost is felt in classrooms, especially in disadvantaged communities, where high turnover disrupts learning and undermines children and young people’s life chances.  

 

Education Support’s latest research shows that teacher wellbeing is at its lowest since the Teacher Wellbeing Index began in 2019. When teachers’ wellbeing suffers, retention suffers too: 1 in 4 education staff have actively sought to change or leave their current job due to pressures on their mental health and wellbeing. 

 

Want to see this change? Join Education Support, the UK’s only charity dedicated to supporting teachers’ mental health, in calling on the Government to take urgent action on teacher retention. 

 

Help us create lasting change for teachers and education staff, and, through doing so, improving children’s education, opportunities and life chances. Thank you for your support!