This guide is from the Department for Education provides advice about developing a school behaviour policy and explains the powers members of staff have to discipline pupils. It may be of particular use to head teachers and school staff with responsibilities for discipline.
Behaviour and discipline in schools: advice for head teachers and school staff
Synopsis
This document from the DfE offers an overview of the powers school staff have for managing behaviour in their school. It covers what power teachers have to discipline pupils for misbehaviours that occur in school and, in some circumstances, outside of school.
It also offers a brief account of what the law allows schools and teachers to do when dealing with poor behaviour; detention, both during and after school hours; pupils’ conduct outside the school gates; and the confiscation of inappropriate items.
Finally, it assures schools that the power to discipline also applies to all paid staff with responsibility for pupils (unless the head teacher states otherwise), while reiterating that head teachers, proprietors and governing bodies must ensure there is a strong behaviour policy in place to support staff in managing behaviour.