From 7-13 February 2022, schools, youth groups, organisations and individuals across the UK will take part in Children’s Mental Health Week. This year’s theme is ’Growing Together’ and will be encouraging children (and adults) to consider how they have grown, and how they can help others to grow.
People presume that teaching is easy, but we are aware that the workers in the education sector undergo more day-to-day stress than many other professions. Everyone wants to do something that will fulfil them, that pays well, that allows them to balance their work life and social life. This can be difficult when at work you feel as though you have to always be relaxed, where you have to constantly have activities planned and organised yet still have control and teach children. Not to mention the added uncertainty of coronavirus and the disruption it has and continues to do in classrooms across the country.
The government has today unveiled plans to increase ratios in Nurseries and with Child minders in a bid to decrease childcare costs in the UK. The UK has one of the highest costs in Europe for childcare.
Under new government plans parents will be able to claim back £1200 of childcare costs, or up to 20%.