Behaviour Smart Blogs

Behaviour Smart Blogs

“Revised 2025 Guidance: How Schools Must Record, Report, and Communicate Use of Reasonable Force”

“Revised 2025 Guidance: How Schools Must Record, Report, and Communicate Use of Reasonable Force”

“Revised 2025 Guidance: How Schools Must Record, Report, and Communicate Use of Reasonable Force”Dean Cotton

Stay compliant with the 2025 statutory guidance on reasonable force and restrictive interventions in UK schools. Learn what must be reported to parents, new recording requirements, and how Behaviour Smart’s incident reporting software helps your school meet all legal obligations. Improve safeguarding, transparency, and behaviour management today.

Relationships First: How Positive School Culture Transforms Student Behaviour

Relationships First: How Positive School Culture Transforms Student Behaviour

Relationships First: How Positive School Culture Transforms Student BehaviourDean Cotton

Ever wondered what makes an exceptional school truly exceptional? Mark Allen, Headteacher of Trinity St Edwards in Barnsley, offers a masterclass in educational leadership that challenges conventional wisdom about behaviour management and school culture.

This line is not straight!

This line is not straight!

This line is not straight!Dean Cotton

I was invited by a local authority to carry out a behaviour audit of primary schools. This audit involved spending a day in each school within the authority and producing a report of what the school did well and what the school needed support with, purely from my own perspective. This wasn't akin to a mini Ofsted inspection and the schools could choose to either ignore or take onboard my views, it was simply a chance for behaviour in the schools to be viewed with a fresh pair of eyes and provide feedback.

A plea for a new compassionate system of schooling

A plea for a new compassionate system of schooling

Phil Coombs

Teachers have to adapt to a world where they recognise that they need children and not the other way around. Should this be the end for schooling? Certainly it will never be the same again; and here I suggest that the system of disciplining the child cannot be the same again. Em. prof. Wilf Carr, from the University of Sheffield, foresaw the end of schooling as a modern phenomenon. He suggested that schools would have to adapt or perish because in the age of online learning platforms schools that don’t recognise this in the post Covid-19 world, whenever the schools return, will inevitably lose out.