Take a minute to email candidates in your constituency, and you may just persuade your MP to work to improve teacher wellbeing for years to come. Just follow these easy steps:

• Visit Writetothem.com and type your postcode or the name of your constituency.
• Click on the name of the MP you want to reach.
• Before you contact your MP, you can check here to see if they have already signed the commitment to teachers. If so, you could ask them how they will adhere to the commitment by promoting Teacher Support Network's services and policies locally and nationally.
  
• Tailor the message to include details of your own personal experiences, or mention particular issues affecting you in England, Scotland or Wales, for example.
  

Text you can use for an email or letter:
Greetings,

I'm worried about the impact that low teacher wellbeing is having on education standards and the lives of those concerned. Teaching can be really rewarding, but you may not know that the education workforce has one of the highest sickness absence rates, and research suggests that many teachers are taking time off because of common mental health conditions brought on by excessive workload, rapid pace of change, and relationship difficulties with colleagues, pupils, and pupils' parents.

Please let me know what you are doing to raise teacher wellbeing, locally and nationally. If you agree with it, please also consider signing up to Teacher Support Network's commitment to teachers, which I found here:

http://teachersupport.info/public-policy/get-active/the-commitment-to-teachers.php

Yours sincerely,

(insert name)

To see which MPs have signed up to our commitment so far, click here.

How did it go?
We're really interested to see any replies from MPs, so please forward responses to our public policy team if you are happy to do so. Please also feel free to contact the public policy team if you have any queries.

You can also contact candidates on Twitter and Facebook here.

NOTE:
As a charity, Teacher Support Network would like to emphasise that it is not promoting, endorsing or campaigning against any MPs or parties. This page is designed to promote awareness of teacher wellbeing issues and candidates' positions on them.