I'm glad its not just me! I believe the whole of local government OH is a
mystery to the likes of school governors. Not only am I a school governor
but I am also an elected local town councillor. Once you get into it you
discover what a can of worms local gov is and just how many layers ( town,
district and county) you have to go thru to get anything done. Then you
discover that actually it is all down to central gov who lay down the law
and no one has any say anyway!
We had a teacher who had the white board fall off the wall onto her head.
When we asked the county to check all the white boards installed in other
schools at the same time we were told that someone must have been fiddling
with it so that it fell off the wall. This in a school with children aged
4-11!!!!!!!
OH is wonderful - but is it really there for all workers???????
Cheers and have a nice w/e folks
Greta Thornbory
Education & Health Care Consultant
WWW.gtenterprises-uk.com
01235 770156 phone
01235 765797 fax
07778 518 027 mobile
----- Original Message -----
From: Dawn Knight <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, April 26, 2002 4:20 PM
Subject: Re: occ health for teachers - a mystery to me!
> I can't get to the bottom of teachers and OH. I, too, am a parent governor
at a local primary school- foundation (previously grant maintained as
opposed to LEA). We had two cases of long term ill health last year and when
I mentioned early referral to OH to get the matter moving, I was told that
teachers had it written in their contracts which meant they couldn't be
referred for the first six months - I thought it was aload of rubbish, but
the head and chair seemed to agree on this point. I assume it is different
for foundation schools as opposed to LEA? Was I just being fobbed off?
> Dawn (Knight)
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