As reported on gov.uk, education secretary Bridget Phillipson has marked the start of the new school year with a pledge to tackle poor behaviour in classrooms, warning that the responsibility lies with families as well as schools
New figures reveal that pupils are disrupting an average of seven minutes in every half hour of lessons. The Department for Education has responded with a major package of support to help schools address what it calls a “behaviour and attendance crisis.”
The latest behaviour survey, covering the 2023/24 academic year, shows that 78% of teachers said poor behaviour had harmed their health and wellbeing.
From this term, 800 schools – educating around 600,000 pupils – will take part in new RISE Attendance and Behaviour Hubs. The hubs will provide targeted support and spread best practice across the system. Further detail will come in the Department’s forthcoming schools’ white paper, which will outline measures to improve standards of behaviour and emphasising the crucial role of parents and carers in supporting children.
The programme will be shaped with input from the sector, guided by newly appointed Attendance and Behaviour Ambassadors, Tom Bennett and Jayne Lowe.
Tom Bennett said, “Every child deserves a school that is safe and calm, where they can be treated with dignity – and so do all school staff. We’re drawing on the professional experience of some of the best schools in England that have successfully created exactly that. By helping to build relationships between these schools and their peers, we’ll be building a national network of expertise that can change the futures for generations of children.”
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