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Teachers were last year issued with government paperwork that amounted to more pages than two copies of the Complete Works of Shakespeare, it has emerged.
According to the Daily Telegraph, school staff were given items of guidance and documents about legislation that added up to over 6,000 pages in 2007-08.
The majority of this was dominated by papers focusing on the social, health and emotional development of pupils, notes the news source.
A 568-page report from the National Institute for Clinical Excellence about alcohol, obesity, and social and emotional wellbeing, as well as a 166-page report on equality and sexual orientation were among the documents received.
"Teachers need to be allowed to get on with teaching without all the unnecessary red tape," argued shadow schools secretary Michael Gove, who called for the amount of paperwork to be "slimmed down".
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