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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 ForceDean 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.

How does Behaviour Smart support the 6 core strategies for Reducing Seclusion and Restraint?

How does Behaviour Smart support the 6 core strategies for Reducing Seclusion and Restraint?

How does Behaviour Smart support the 6 core strategies for Reducing Seclusion and Restraint?Dean Cotton

Here at Behaviour Smart we are passionate about reducing restraint and seclusion, and the evidence speaks for itself with most of our users seeing huge reductions in behaviour incidents, including those involving restraint, with some users experiencing a 95% reduction in serious incidents after just 12 months of implementing our incident recording/behaviour management system. The main reason for these outstanding results is because Behaviour Smart is based on sound psychological research. The Six Core Strategies form the foundations of Behaviour Smart which were developed in the United States by the National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors Medical Directors Council (NASMHPD). The approach is also used in the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and Finland.

The Harsh Reality of Seclusion: A Call for Change

The Harsh Reality of Seclusion: A Call for Change

The Harsh Reality of Seclusion: A Call for ChangeDean Cotton

The troubling practice of seclusion, particularly in schools across the UK, raises serious questions about human rights and individual autonomy. A recent report by the BBC has brought this issue to light, highlighting situations where pupils are isolated against their will. In this blog we delve deeper into this matter and understand why seclusion demands urgent attention.

Reflections on challenging behaviour and social work

Reflections on challenging behaviour and social work

Michael Balkow

My two main areas of experience in social work began in child protection services, followed by children with disabilities teams. Challenging behaviour had a part to play in the former, but usually the greatest challenges were from the parents, either through resistance, disguised or non-compliance and simply lacking the ability to make the significant behaviour changes to provide their children with a safe stable home life. Moving into children with disabilities services, some of these parental challenges remained, however a new element of safeguarding became more common – that of children with challenging behaviour, sometimes extreme and violent, making them one of the main risk factors within the family home. Some children would attack their parents and siblings, damage the home, putting a huge strain on the resources and resilience of parents and carers. The dynamic of parents being scared of their own children, often seemed like a complete reversal of my previous child protection work.

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