The sick day that wasn’t a sick day


Hi Reader,

One in five employees used sick leave last year to cover a care emergency. Only 63% feel able to say that is what it was.

Which means a share of your absence data is describing something other than illness, and you are planning around a number that is not true.

I have written up why the 2026 SEND reforms and the Employment Rights Act are about the same households, and five things any employer, a school included, can do about it.

​→ Read it here​

If you would rather talk it through than read it, I am running a free 45-minute session for school and trust leaders on 3 November on why the same situations keep escalating.

​→ Save your place​

Kindest wishes

Naomi

Naomi Withers
Naomi Withers
Founder, The HRologist
Emotional safety for schools, families and workplaces
Free for school leaders: the Inclusion Pressure Map
BPS-accredited psychology · CIPD Level 7 · Startup Awards Midlands finalist
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