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PARTNERSHIPS for Schools has
confirmed the advisers for the Legal
Advisory Services Framework which
will provide professional support for
local authorities as they deliver their
BSF projects. There are now 17 law
firms on the framework – five more
than on the current framework of
legal advisers. Firms on the
Framework will be able to offer
comprehensive legal support from the
pre-procurement through to
operational Local Education
Partnership phase of BSF
programmes.
THE INTRODUCTION of a Minimum
Design Standard for BSF means that
designs that do not meet the rigorous
standard will not be able to proceed
through procurement. Proposed
designs for schools will continue to be
assessed by CABE’s schools design
panel. Only designs graded by the panel
as ‘very good’ or ‘pass’ will be able to
proceed through procurement and into
construction - designs graded
‘unsatisfactory’ or ‘poor’ at their final
review will be stopped. For the first
time, educationalists will also be
included on the panel to advise how
the design can best meet the local
Unified action needed to
authority’s aspiration for
transforming education.
tackle violence in classroom
Apprenticeship, Skills, Children and
Learning (ASCL) Bill. Eighty-seven percent
of respondents said that they were not
confident about searching a pupil for an
offensive weapon, and fewer than half
(46%) said that they were confident in
using reasonable force to stop a pupil
harming themselves or someone else.
Codes of conduct
The survey results also suggested that
more needs to be done at a local level to
Julian Stanley: Involve the whole school community.
address these problems, with more than
half (54%) of respondents saying that
TWO OUT OF FIVE teachers have been their school’s codes of conduct and
physically assaulted by a pupil and nearly behaviour policies were not being
half have received threats of violence enforced effectively. However, there was
from pupils, according to the 2009 an indication that teachers feel that
Violence and Disruption study by the behaviour partnerships, proposed in the
Teacher Support Network. In their ASCL Bill, could be effective. Eighty-two
responses to the survey, teachers percent said that they worked well with
variously described being assaulted, parents to improve behaviour, with 62%
threatened with scissors and spat at. praising their relationships with the police.
The potential effects of violent and Teacher Support Network chief
disruptive behaviour in schools are far executive, Julian Stanley, said: “Schools
reaching, with over half (56%) of teachers must ensure that teachers have a clear
Police in the UK have been called
saying that they have considered leaving understanding of the disciplinary options
into schools almost 3,000 times in
the profession as a result of such behaviour. available to them and be confident in
the last two years because of arson
Problems with teachers’ existing powers their use. Crucially, the development and
attacks, official figures have revealed.
to take action over such behaviour were implementation of school policies must
also highlighted in the report, as well as involve the whole school community in
issues with the proposed change in order to effectively improve behaviour
teachers’ responsibilities under the and discipline in the school.”
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