Giving evidence to the parliamentary standing committee she warned that increasing teachers’ powers to discipline children could lead to "disproportionate" punishments being handed out.
In written evidence submitted to the committee she said that new powers to physically restrain pupils could breach their human rights and hoped that "effective teachers" would be able to prevent classroom problems from escalating to the point when physical restraint is used.
She added: "New rights for teachers should be accompanied by new responsibilities. Records should be kept of when teachers have made use of these new powers, with an expectation that head teachers monitor their use to discourage ineffective teachers from becoming over-reliant on them."
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