the way back - nervous breakdown and all that

"It was agreed that I would write to parents and inform them of your return to work. You shared your concern that parents may attempt to discuss the details of your absence with you and we agreed that you would keep to the professional line and confirm that you have been unwell but would not share any personal details of your absence." Last week, I discussed my initial back to work meeting. The above is taken from the letter I was sent by the head immediately after the following meeting on 24.01.20. I was not informed of what parents were told about my absence which lasted the best part of 3 months. One thing I do know is that they were not told that it was due to a nervous breakdown, nor that it had been caused by the head.  But apparently, I "shared (my) concern with (her)  that parents may attempt to discuss the details of (my) absence with (me)   and we agreed that (I) would keep to the professional line and confirm that (I) have been unwell but would not share any p...

On 23/03/22, I made a Subject Access Request to my previous school’s council’s HR as I had to the school before (see previous posts). Data protection law requires that such requests for personal data are dealt with within one calendar month. I finally received documents at the beginning of July… And the contents were woefully meagre. A lot of the communication I had had with HR over the years was not included. More importantly, unless the vast majority of communication between the school and HR had been conducted over the phone or in person, it is odd that was such little email correspondence between the head and HR knowing the number of unresolved issues. Below is one of three e-mails I was given. It was from HR to the head sent after my Sickness Review Meeting – I have of course anonymised it and added annotations. It concerns my sickness review meeting, a month after my breakdown. It is mainly verbatim: I just added the odd bit of punctuation. A lot of the minutes are poorly trans...