New powers giving teachers authority to discipline badly behaved pupilsbecame law at the beginning of April under the Education and InspectionsAct 2006. Teachers can now punish pupils on the way to and from schooland use weekend detentions. And schools have a legal duty to implementmeasures to tackle all forms of bullying.
Teachers are also allowed to use physical force to restrain or controlpupils if there is no alternative way of preventing them causing majordisruption in schools or harming themselves or others. Last year, headteachers were given powers to use airport-style metal detector archesand wands to carry out random non-intrusive searches of pupils forweapons.
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