Hank Roberts, a teacher at Copland Community School in Wembley, north London, likened the state education system to that in Japan, where a record 192 children took their own lives last year.

He told the 150,000-strong union's annual conference in Belfast: "The route this Government is treading is the route to child suicide like Japan because of the intolerable hothouse pressures put on children's learning. What's happened to play? What's happening to childhood?"

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