Government has published a guide providing advice to head teachers and school staff on developing the school behaviour policy and explaining the powers members of staff have to discipline pupils. Last Friday Ofsted announced the start of a rolling programme of unannounced visits to schools where standards of behaviour are giving cause for concern.
A row has erupted within the coalition government over the decision to remove the chair of Ofsted Baroness Sally Morgan. A source told the BBC that schools minister David Laws is "absolutely furious" Morgan is not to be reappointed, a decision he believes is politically motivated by Number 10 in order to bring in a Conservative supporter. The concerns echo those of Morgan herself, who is to leave the post she has held for three years in the autumn.
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