Teacher wins stress claim award

A teacher has this week received an out-of-court stress settlement of more than £250,000. The payment, a record for a female teacher, is one of the highest awards for a victim of stress.

Janice Howell, a teacher at Maindee Junior School in Newport, claimed that between September 1994 and February 1996 she received little support in dealing with her special needs class. She suffered two breakdowns.

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This latest award has been topped only by the £300,000 payment to a teacher in Shropshire, who claimed that the pupils at his school were out of control after a new head teacher ignored staff views.

The National Union of Teachers claimed that there are 150 further stress cases pending. By Paul Nelson