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New stats show South Lanarkshire school staff have missed more than 40,000 working days in just four years because of mental health issues
South Lanarkshire, the stats showed 9335 days were missed in 2017/2018, before a leap to 15,643 in 2018/2019. That number then dipped slightly to 13,378 for the curtailed 2019/2020 year, with 3745 absences already recorded to date for 2020/2021.Andy Harvey, of the South Lanarkshire branch of the EIS teaching union.