The Maternity Teacher Paternity Teacher Project (MTPT)
The MTPT Project are the UK’s charity for parent-teachers, supporting educators as they consider starting families, during their expectancy and leave periods, and as they balance both professional and parenting commitments in the longer term.
We believe that teaching has the potential to be one of the most rewarding and family-friendly career choices, and many schools and Trusts are getting things so right!
Unfortunately, the motherhood penalty in education – on a larger scale – is still having a significantly detrimental impact on the health of our workforce. Women aged 30-39 are the largest demographic to leave teaching every year, and the gender pay gap increases at every level between the ages of 35-39 – the age that women are most likely to become mothers.
The MTPT Project supports our grassroots community of parent-teachers through positive networking opportunities, coaching, workshops and webinars.
We work with schools, unions and CPD providers to create more family- and life-friendly working conditions for staff.
We are the UK’s experts on the motherhood penalty in education and campaign at national level to bring about improvements that will help to make teaching a more sustainable career choice.