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This guidance provides advice to schools on understanding behaviour, strategies to respond to difficult and harmful behaviour, physical contact and use of non-restrictive / restrictive intervention and use of restraint. It replaces the previous guidance called 'Keeping Pupils and Staff Safe' and has been renamed to better reflect the purpose of the document. A word copy of the Appendices​​​​ are available to amend as necessary.

​​Useful websites

• ​Reducing the Need for Restraint and Restrictive Intervention / Use of Reasonable Force (DfE, 2013)
  
• Behaviour and Discipline in Schools (DfE, 2016)
  
• Exclusion from maintained schools, academies and PRUs in England (DfE, 2017)
  
• Searching, screening and confiscation (DfE, 2018)
  
• Positive environments where children can flourish (Oftsed, 2018)
  
• Creating a Culture: How school leaders can optimise behaviour (DfE, 2017)​