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Behaviour and Safety: Key Trends and Challenges

We recognise that promoting positive behaviour and ensuring pupil welfare is essential for school success. Through conversations with 400,000 school staff, pupils, and parents, we've crafted a comprehensive snapshot of the national education landscape, with a specific focus on pupil behaviour, wellbeing, and safety.

With these insights, as trust and school leaders you can:

• Evaluate current safeguarding policies and practices
• Inform your behaviour management strategies
• Proactively identify areas to improve pupil behaviour, wellbeing and safety
  

In the 2023/2024 school year, we published two essential and timely reports on Pupil Behaviour and Safety and Pupil Wellbeing.

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Pupil behaviour is a topic of growing importance, as student absence and incidents of poor behaviour frequently headline the news.

Our new research on pupil behaviour and safety presents a comprehensive analysis of the views of staff, pupils, parents, and school leaders. Alarmingly, we found that feelings of safety have declined by almost 10% in the last two years alone. Exploring feedback from a large and diverse pool of stakeholders, this report is packed with many more eye-opening insights on behaviour management, classroom disruption, safety, and bullying.

Key learnings discussed in the report include:

• Behaviour Management: Staff report finding it difficult to get support with behaviour issues;
• Classroom Disruption: Around 40% of both staff and pupils report regular disruptions to lessons;
• Safety and Bullying: Pupil behaviour is a major factor for staff considering resignation;
• Changes in Behaviour Over Time: Feelings of safety have declined over the past three years.
  

This report is an essential read for anyone looking to review and strengthen their school's behaviour management strategies.

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Our Pupil Behaviour and Safety report - launching 25th January 2024 - shows a continued decline in pupil behaviour in English Schools. Exploring feedback from a large and diverse pool of stakeholders, this report is packed with eye-opening insights on behaviour management, classroom disruption, safety and bullying.

• Violence Against Staff: 1 in 5 members of staff reported experiencing emotional or physical violence from a pupil.
• Behaviour Management: Staff report finding it difficult to get support with behaviour issues
• Classroom Disruption: Around 40% of both staff and pupils report regular disruptions to lessons
• Safety and Bullying: Pupil behaviour is a major factor for staff considering to resign
• Changes in Behaviour Over Time: Feelings of safety have declined over the past three years

KCSIE 2023 Changes

This blog aims to get you up to speed with the latest changes to the Keeping Children Safe in Education guidelines for 2023.

The Pupil Wellbeing in Schools report reveals stark data on children's wellbeing and emotional health in English schools.

• Overall Wellbeing: Wellbeing has worsened significantly since 2020
• Happiness at School: Pupils' happiness to be studying at their school has decreased by 15% since 2020/21
• Year Group: Wellbeing scores decrease as pupils get older, but there is an increase in happiness at school once pupils enter sixth form
• Gender: Girls have lower wellbeing scores than boys, and this gap is widening over time
• School Characteristics: There is clear evidence for a link between overall wellbeing and school phase, but limited evidence for the school's Ofsted rating, and no evidence for school size for primary and secondary schools

KCSIE 2023 Changes

This blog aims to get you up to speed with the latest changes to the Keeping Children Safe in Education guidelines for 2023.