The government’s school behaviour tsar Tom Bennett has called for the creation of more “internal inclusion units” to offer targeted early support for children with behavioural problems.
The idea is proposed in Bennett’s report, Creating a Culture: How School Leaders Can Optimise Behaviour, published by the Department for Education. Bennett says the primary aim of the units should be to aid reintegration of students back into the mainstream school community.
He calls for funding to be focused on schools with higher than average levels of challenging behaviour, and those that have demonstrated reasonable efforts to create similar provision using existing budgets.
The report cites surveys that show perceptions of pupil behaviour have improved over the past five years, with three-quarters of teachers in a 2015 Teachers Voice Omnibus rating classroom behaviour as “good” or “very good”.
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