Light reading

48 pages of guidance.

We are not only teachers.

It sometimes worries me that so many additional responsibilities are laid at the feet of the teachers who see children for just six hours of everyday.

We are not diagnosticians in a medical sense, but we need to be (for all the right reasons) alert for social /emotional / mental health indicators....

I understand why, but what happens if we miss something or behavioural indicators are so well hidden that they cannot be observed? Does that make us culpable further down the line if something changes?

I know, understand and accept my moral and professional responsibility but that doesn't mean I am not terrified of failing a child or a family .

It's a careful line we walk.