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<p>All schools should be safe and disciplined environments within which pupils feel
happy and able to fulfil their potential. This Government is committed to ensuring
that all teachers are equipped with the skills to tackle both the serious behavioural
issues that compromise the safety and wellbeing of pupils and school staff, as well
as the low level disruption that too often gets in the way of teaching.</p><p>Any
form of violence in school is completely unacceptable and should not be tolerated.
The workplace should not be a setting where people, including teachers and pupils,
are subject to threats of, or actual violence, harassment or bullying. The Health
and Safety Executive has provided advice for schools to use to put in place strategies
to prevent or minimise workplace harassment and violence. Schools’ behaviour policies
should set out how poor behaviour, including incidents of violence, are dealt with.</p><p>If
there is a violent attack on a teacher or any person on school premises, the Department
expects schools to take immediate and robust action. This should include ongoing support
for the person concerned and a review of the incident to establish what lessons can
be learned. Any decision on how to sanction a pupil is a matter for the school. Where
the incident constitutes a criminal offence, the school should report it to the police.</p><p>To
further support schools, the Department provides head teachers, teachers and governing
boards with a range of information to help them develop policies to manage disruptive
and poor behaviour within the classroom in order to help reduce the likelihood of
violent attacks on teachers and pupils.</p><p>The Department has also given teachers
a range of powers to promote good behaviour. The Department’s advice on behaviour
has also been updated to outline a range of sanctions that it is permissible for teachers
to use.</p><p>The Department is investing £10 million to create behaviour hubs in
England to facilitate the sharing of best practice in classroom and behaviour management.</p>
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