The Independent covers broad issues including reproductive rights, climate change, and Big Tech, and produces documentaries like 'The A Word' while investigating financial and political stories. The outlet requests donations to fund reporters, emphasizes trust across the political spectrum, and keeps reporting free from paywalls so journalism remains available to everyone. A leading teaching union warns that school and college leaders now shoulder unprecedented burdens as institutions run food banks and support housing because public services are underfunded. The ASCL report states these vital services cannot remain solely the responsibility of schools and delineates which services should fall to other agencies, linking rising expectations to the pandemic and high child poverty rates.
The burden on school and college leaders and teachers has reached an unprecedented level, a leading teaching union has warned, as schools are increasingly forced to run food banks and support families with housing due to under-funded public services "crumbling around them". A report by the Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL) said these vital services are important, but cannot continue to be the sole responsibility of schools and teachers.
Julie McCulloch, director of strategy and policy at ASCL, said: "In recent years the expectations on schools and colleges have grown way beyond teaching and learning to encompass a wide range of societal responsibilities. Some of this can be traced back to the pandemic, but also to high child poverty rates and crumbling public services, meaning that schools and colleges are left to pick up the pieces."
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