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Observer investigation uncovers link between school reports and heart attacks, strokes and nervous breakdowns

With a strike ballot looming, school leaders say erosion of services for children and families has made their jobs untenable

THE community has thanked a long-serving firefighter who is hanging up his hat after 30 years of service.

Headteachers say inspectors are ignoring or dismissing the harsh realities of Covid in schools

Last modified on Sat 17 Apr 2021 03.32 EDT For Alex Barnes*, head of a large secondary school in Yorkshire, the stresses of being in charge in the pandemic became too much. Last spring, just at the end of the first lockdown, she reached breaking point. “The demands were coming at me from every angle,” she says. “Worried parents bombarding me with questions, teachers and their unions demanding assurances that the school was safe. I became desperately worried that I’d be responsible for a rise in infections. “One night I went home to my husband and said, ‘I donâ€...