Behaviour

The latest news, analysis and best-practice advice on managing pupil behaviour, including everything from new policy to cutting-edge research

Tuesday

7th Oct 2025

How ‘true’ inclusion cuts exclusions
A new approach to inclusion has helped one school to reduce exclusions to zero and significantly cut suspensions. Phil Humphreys and Kiran Gill explain how
Figures either side of fence

Wednesday

1st Oct 2025

Attendance: How we support early strugglers to stay at our school
Rather than sending new students struggling with attendance to alternative provision settings, this school has created a programme to ease them into secondary life – with impressive outcomes
A magnet attracting balls

Tuesday

30th Sep 2025

Phillipson: Heads need training to avoid ‘talking down’ to parents
The education secretary says school leaders should not ‘drift into judgement’ when engaging with parents
Education secretary Bridget Phillipson
The view from Vietnam: a growing market that’s home to 15,000 teachers
Four senior leaders provide insights into living and working in Vietnam, a country that has experienced rapid growth in the international school sector
Train street in Vietnam

Friday

26th Sep 2025

Low-income white pupils ‘already disengaged’ before secondary
Schools need to look at much earlier interventions to improve outcomes for disadvantaged white children, a new study suggests
Low-income white children already disengaged before secondary school

Thursday

25th Sep 2025

Restraint and seclusion bill ‘absolutely vital’ for Scottish pupils
Children’s commissioner says campaigners have waited ‘many, many years’ for the ‘significant milestone’
Restraint and seclusion bill 'absolutely vital' for Scottish pupils

Tuesday

23rd Sep 2025

Why exclusions focus may obscure the bigger picture in Scotland
Schools’ right to exclude should be maintained, but this should not distract from the need to tackle the lack of staff and other critical issues that affect behaviour, says Andrea Bradley
Why exclusions focus may obscure bigger picture in Scotland

Monday

22nd Sep 2025

Scotland’s heads need more support on exclusion, says report
Think tank calls for ministers to make it clearer to headteachers that their school will be backed if they decide to exclude
Report demands more support for Scotland's heads over exclusions

Tuesday

9th Sep 2025

Scottish behaviour guidance updated with advice on ‘consequences’
Opposition MSPs criticise slow and ‘incoherent’ response to worsening behaviour in Scottish schools
Jenny Gilruth on stairs

Friday

5th Sep 2025

Tom Bennett: strict rules ‘dovetail perfectly’ with inclusion
The DfE attendance and behaviour ambassador defends his record and tells ÌÇÐÄVlog why he wants to check on teacher-training providers
Tom Bennett
Exclusive
Revealed: the rise in violent incidents in schools
ÌÇÐÄVlog investigation leads to warning that teachers and pupils need ‘urgent help’ to deal with rising levels of violence
Two boys fighting on pavement

Monday

1st Sep 2025

Teachers much more likely than leaders to call behaviour ‘poor’
Meanwhile, far fewer teachers feel ‘very confident’ in managing pupil behaviour, a government survey has found
Children misbehaving in classroom