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Enigma54 · 16/10/2025 15:39

Has anyone been through this process recently? How long did it take? I’ve been off work for 8 months now
( cancer and treatment). I work as support staff in a school.

I have no end date to treatment and the current regime isn’t working anyway.

I’m having regular meetings with my Head and there is a meeting scheduled for the end of this term, with my union rep and HR, where they will want an update.

I’m considering requesting IHR in the new year.

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Enigma54 · 21/10/2025 18:24

My union rep didn’t call yesterday.
Hopefully I can get this mess sorted by the end of the academic year. It’s stressing me out a bit now!

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ArseInTheCoOpWindow · 21/10/2025 18:28

Viviennemary · 16/10/2025 21:35

I've heard retirement through ill health is almost unheard of these days.

I got ill health from teaching in2021.

49% of applicants get it. The main reason for not getting it is insufficient evidence.

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