#mental-health-crisis

#mental-health-crisis

A group of senior school leaders is calling on teachers to donate 1 each to launch a legal challenge against Ofsted, pledging to hold the inspectorate to account for ending careers and causing a mental health crisis.The vice-president of the Conservative education society, John Bald, a former Ofsted inspector, is fronting a crowdfunding page for the group, which is called Fair Judgement.

These are just three statistics that exemplify the current mental health crisis that is sweeping the nation.The pandemic, a turbulent time which transformed life as we knew it, has taken a tremendous toll on the mental health of teenagers in the UK.More worryingly, secondary schools are struggling to meet the needs of their students with mental health problems.

Instances of LFB workers signing off sick due to stress, anxiety and depression have gone up by more than 40% since 2018 and by more than 20% in the last year alone.Anne Clarke, a Labour member of the London Assembly who requested and received data on the issue, said the shocking rise is a damning indictment of the Government's post-2010 austerity programme.

Have you heard?According to some very smart people who did a study (of other studies), the COVID-19 pandemic didn't actually warp everyone's mental health as much as we thought it did!If you're rolling your eyes, you're not alone.Published earlier this month in the British Medical Journal, the meta-analysis looked at 137 studies from (and this is important) mostly-wealthy European and Asian countries in an apparent attempt to quantify the many, many academic and anecdotal findings which suggest that the pandemic absolutely ruined everyones' minds.

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar has urged the candidates to succeed Nicola Sturgeon to make mental health a top priority.The Labour leader's comments come in the same week as polls open in the SNP leadership contest, with members to decide between Finance Secretary Kate Forbes, former minister Ash Regan and Health Secretary Humza Yousaf.

Soldiers relax at a rehabilitation course in between tours in northeastern Ukraine.Claire Harbage/NPR KHARKIV REGION, Ukraine Vlad is one of four soldiers in his unit who survived a tour of duty defending Bakhmut, the city in eastern Ukraine that Russia has tried to capture for months."Bakhmut," he says, his voice breaking.

We often use the term "overstress" without even realizing the exact meaning, symptoms, and causes.Do you know that stress can have physical, emotional, and mental symptoms?Whether you're working on beating a deadline or organizing your friend's wedding party.You can't run away from the stress that comes with the tasks on a regular basis!

The family of a Florida man who died after being violently restrained by jailers is filing a civil rights suit against the officers who were involved in the incident and the jail's healthcare provider.According to a draft of the lawsuit shared exclusively with the Guardian, the family of 43-year-old Kevin Desir alleges that Broward county sheriff officials used excessive force against Desir while he was suffering from a severe mental health episode, violating his 14th amendment rights.

On 29 June 2022, all the staff at Queen Mary University of London, where I work, received an email from management.To our horror, they were threatening to withhold 100% of our pay for 21 days of both July and August, because we were participating in a marking boycott over pensions, pay, labour precarity, inequality and working conditions.

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email The family of a vulnerable mixed-race man who died after being restrained by police officers say they have no faith in an investigation into his death.Kaine Fletcher, 26, died on July 3 after Nottinghamshire Police officers were called to his home while he was experiencing a mental health crisis.

U.S. Representative Jamal Bowman (D-NY) joins TikTok creators at a news conference to speak out against a possible ban of TikTok at the House Triangle at the United States Capitol in Washington, U.S., March 22, 2023.EVELYN HOCKSTEIN (REUTERS) The state of Arkansas sued TikTok and Facebook parent Meta on Tuesday, claiming the social media companies were misleading consumers about the safety of children on their platforms and protections of users' private data.

By Joel Rosenblatt | Bloomberg Meta Platforms Inc. was sued by the school board in the company's home county for allegedly addicting students to its social media platforms and contributing to a mental health crisis.The San Mateo County Board of Education added the parent company of Facebook and Instagram to a complaint it filed March 13 against other social media giants, including Google, TikTok and Snap.