MENTAL HEALTH should be at the top of the employment rights agenda, Scottish TUC conference delegates said today as the issue was described as “a crisis of capitalism.”

Kat Lord from teachers’ union NASUWT linked the wellbeing of pupils to that of their teachers in proposing a motion which called for the STUC to recognise and address specific health and wellbeing issues in schools.

She said: “Our education system is broken and the teachers responsible for delivering it are themselves starting to break.”