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Accident at work claims by teachers cost around £20 million in injury compensation last year, according to disclosures made by the four major teaching unions.
The National Union of Teachers, the Association of Teachers and Lecturers, the Association of School and College Leaders, and the National Association of Schoolmasters/Union of Women Teachers all provided figures detailing teacher accident at work claims over which they had provided assistance.
Among the most high value workplace injury compensation settlements secured for teachers by personal injury solicitors were £459,000 to a teacher who suffered a back injury after being pushed over by a pupil, £426,000 to a teacher who was sprayed in the face by an aerosol and £200,000 which went to a teacher who suffered personal injury in a slip and trip accident.
A union spokesperson commented, "The level of compensation is no cause for celebration. What this figure illustrates is the… failure to pay due regard to health and safety in the workplace.
"Behind each of these cases is a person whose life has been changed through serious injury."
The Taxpayers' Alliance seemed to agree that more needs to be done to improve health and safety in schools in order to reduce the bill for teacher accident at work claims. "The taxpayer wants more spent on the education of the country's children than on paying compensation to their teachers," said a spokesperson for the group.
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