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There may be times when a member of staff has to use ‘reasonable force’ to safeguard a pupil. Suzanne O’Connell outlines how to ensure that your school and your staff are prepared for such an incident
Early years providers must understand the difference between corporal punishment and physical intervention, and when an offence has been committed by a member of staff.
Strategies for coping with aggressive, disruptive and unpredictable behaviour at school. Help empower all school staff to deal more effectively with aggressive, disruptive or unpredictable behaviours across the primary age ranges.
Tough Issues, Tough Choices is a collection of 24 workshop sessions to help young people learn how to tackle challenging issues by promoting emotional literacy in schools. It is specifically aimed at those children with behavioural problems.
The emphasis in departmental guidance in recent years has been on the rights and powers of school staff to restrain children. Bernard Allen and George Matthews consider why we restrain and how we might do it better
The education secretary, Michael Gove, has decided not to go ahead with legislation that would have required schools in England to record and report the use of force against pupils