FOI Request - Health And Wellbeing In Schools
Request 101002947141
1. Does the local authority use or promote the HSE Management Standards Indicator Tool and/or the accompanying HSE Talking Toolkit: Promoting work-related stress in schools?
2. Do you record absences in schools related to stress?
3. What was the absence rate for teachers in your local authority for each the past 3 years (2018, 2019, 2020)?
a. What percentage of these absences were recorded as stress, anxiety or depression?
4. What is the local authority policy for managing occupational health? Please provide policy documents.
5. Does your local authority carry out risk assessments on workplace, or work-related stress?
a. Please provide any risk assessment policies and pro-formas used for this.
6. How frequently are risks assessments on workplace or work-related stress carried out in schools?
Response 18-01-22
1. Does the local authority use or promote the HSE Management Standards Indicator Tool and/or the accompanying HSE Talking Toolkit: Promoting work-related stress in schools? YES - Stress Risk Assessment template if based on the standards.
2. Do you record absences in schools related to stress? YES
3. What was the absence rate for teachers in your local authority for each the past 3 years (2018, 2019, 2020)?
a. What percentage of these absences were recorded as stress, anxiety or depression?
These figures are based on Days lost against FTE (full time equivalent) and taken from the Annual Workforce Profiling reports (Nov 17-Oct 18)(Nov 18 – Oct 19)(Nov 19 – Oct 20)
| Overall total Days lost | Teachers total Days lost (%age of overall days lost) | Depression/Stress/Anxiety Total Days lost (%age of overall days lost) |
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| 2018 | 46,622.22 | 7,756.31 16.6% | 1,601.47 3.43% |
| 2019 | 44,543.62 | 7,979.30 17.9% | 2,156.70 4.84% |
| 2020 | 38,993.48 | 8,451.45 21.6% | 2,742.65 7.06% |
4. What is the local authority policy for managing occupational health? Please provide policy documents. Health at Work Policy can be seen here.
5. Does your local authority carry out risk assessments on workplace, or work-related stress? Yes
a. Please provide any risk assessment policies and pro-formas used for this. This document is available here.
6. How frequently are risks assessments on workplace or work-related stress carried out in schools? On basis of identified and prioritised need.