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Safeguarding in schools: staying on top of school monitoring in the new academic year

With the rise in bullying, vaping, and security threats, each school must act to create a secure environment that ensures both students and teachers feel safe while at school. The start of the new academic year is an ideal time to put preventative measures in place, so explore your options now.

Sponsor seeks answers to academy Ofsted bullying allegations

Ofsted had ‘credible evidence’ of staff being suspended after speaking to inspectors at All Saints Academy Dunstable

Schools report children as young as 10 to police over social media abuse

Shocking incidents uncovered reveal the scale and severity of issues schools are now dealing with

Holland Park parents now threaten to sue Ofsted in MAT battle

They claim school’s ‘inadequate’ judgment is ‘intended to drive through’ plans to join United Learning

Ark Schools risks losing academy over homophobia, harassment and SEND suspensions

The leading trust’s school faced criticism over a ‘culture of sanctions’, unmonitored missing pupils and unrecorded bullying and prejudice

Williamson plans behaviour survey and urges ‘sensible debate’ over exclusions

Schools will take part in a new survey on student behaviour every term, the education secretary has announced. Gavin Williamson outlined the proposals as part of a wider drive for “strong behaviour and discipline policy,” including the behaviour hubs project and a crackdown on mobile phone use in schools. The minister also called for “proper […]

Adopted children need better support at school

Schools should give teachers more training to help pupils who have experienced trauma, a leading charity has said, after a survey found almost three quarters of adopted children want more support from their schools. Adoption UK wants a new continuing professional development programme to help teachers support adopted pupils, and says schools should appoint a designated governor […]

How schools can support young people with a disfigurement

Schools have trained teachers to combat bullying based on race, gender and creed. We must do the same with disfigurement, says Alexis Camble Most teachers have at some point spent an evening worrying about whether they handled a situation in the classroom quite as well as they could. As a former teacher myself, I know […]

Schools need to wake up to relational bullying

Relational bullying can be difficult to spot but it’s actually the most pernicious kind, explains Kayleigh Chester When we talk about bullying we often think about physical and verbal behaviours: stealing lunch money, a shove in the corridor between classes, the name-calling on the school bus. Cyberbullying is frequently discussed too, and has become a […]