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https://www.aplhealth.com/A new report by the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER) looking at the issues facing the teacher workforce in England shows that job-related stress is higher among teachers than other professionals.

Teachers are to be offered cash incentives to stick with the profession as part of the government’s strategy to increase the number of people working in the sector.

Schools will get £400 million in extra capital funding this year, the chancellor has announced. Mr Hammond said the government was "investing record amounts in our schools", but acknowledged that "school’s budgets do not stretch to that extra bit of kit that would make such a difference".

Approximately 1,000 head teachers from across England protested outside Parliament on Friday in a plea for increased school funding.

A secondary school is offering parents the chance to take their children out of school for one week in July next year for an "enrichment week", the BBC reports.