Schools becoming 'A&E departments of communities' says new union leader

New leader of National Association of Head Teachers, Tony Draper, says teachers struggling to deal with impact of austerity on families

Schools are becoming the “A&E departments of communities”, with teachers increasingly called upon to support families struggling to deal with the impact of austerity, according to the new leader of the head teachers’ union.

Tony Draper, who is head teacher of a primary school in Milton Keynes and is about to take over as president of the National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT), said schools had no choice but to get involved when faced with a desperate family.

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