FOI Request - Teacher Mental Health Absences

Request 101003906671

1. How teacher absences due to stress and mental health is recorded by the local authority.

In other words, what wording or code is used to entail when a teacher has taken an absence due to stress or other mental health reasons.

2. The number of high school teacher absences due to stress and mental health broken down in the last six academic years (2020/21, 2021/22, 2022/23, 2023/24, 2024/25 and 2025/26 so far).

3. The number of primary school teacher absences due to stress and mental health broken down in the last six academic years (2020/21, 2021/22, 2022/23, 2023/24, 2024/25 and 2025/26 so far).