Educator mental health and wellbeing

UK charity Education Support Partnership commissioned a large-scale survey into the mental

health and wellbeing of education professionals*. Here are some of the results from the survey.

Educator mental health and wellbeing

53%

Source: YouGov. (2017). Mental health and wellbeing in the education

profession 2017: Final report. Retrieved from Education Support Partnership website: https://www.educationsupportpartnership.org.uk/node/722

*YouGov online survey of 1250 education professionals working in schools, further education and higher education, June 2017.

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64% 45%

Have considered leaving the education sector over the past two years as a

result of health pressures

Would not feel confident disclosing unmanageable stress or mental health

problems to their employer

Feel their organisation does not support people who

experience mental health problems well

75% said they had experienced

behavioural, psychological or physical symptoms due to work

More than half (56%) had suffered from insomnia and difficulties sleeping in the last two years

29% said work had made them feel

stressed 'most' or 'all' of the time in the past

few weeks