CYP Now - Interview: Model of good behaviour - Frank Gulley, headmaster,Temple Sutton Primary School

The Respect agenda has many fierce critics in the children's sector but Frank Gulley is not one of them. "It has its place, once you go past an intolerable level of behaviour something has to happen to deal with that," says the primary school head. But, he insists, "it should be seen alongside packages to support people who are in great difficulties."

Gulley's approach to dealing with anti-social behaviour has won plauditsand last week his school was one of the locations used to launch thelatest part of the Respect jigsaw.

The new Respect Action Plan introduces parenting orders for those who"seriously misbehave in school" and intervention schemes for truants andchildren excluded from school. Sixteen ministers visited variousprojects across England to push the plan and Temple Sutton PrimarySchool hosted work and pensions secretary John Hutton.

"It was a very busy day," says Gulley. "We had the minister and all hisentourage. We also had residents who have acted as witnesses againstpeople who have been causing problems in the local area."

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