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Positive behaviour in schools / settings is key to academic achievement and inseparable from safeguarding, the wellbeing of children and young people / staff and all other aspects of learning. The 'Understanding and Supporting Behaviour: Safe Practice for Schools' 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. The guidance document and appendices can be found on the Guidance Documents, Model Policies and Templates page.​

Useful documents

• Behaviour in schools (DfE 2022)
• Suspension and permanent exclusion (DfE 2022)
• Reducing the Need for Restraint and Restrictive Intervention / Use of Reasonable Force (DfE, 2013)
• Searching, screening and confiscation (DfE 2022)
• Positive environments where children can flourish (Oftsed, 2018)
• Creating a Culture: How school leaders can optimise behaviour (DfE, 2017)
• model Behaviour and Relationships Policy