Behaviour

Your board is accountable for how your school selects and monitors alternative provision (AP). Find out what these duties are, how to review your AP data, what questions to ask school leaders, and what Ofsted will look for.

Your board can temporarily direct pupils off-site to alternative provision as an intervention to improve their behaviour. Your school can also carry out a managed move to another school, if a pupil needs a permanent change. Find out about the requirements for both options.

Understand when and how staff in your school can use restrictive interventions, including reasonable force – and get your head around the new statutory recording and reporting requirements from 1 April 2026.

Find out what to do if your school has temporarily forbidden a pupil from attending your school premises because of the risk they could pose to other pupils or staff.

Find out how to fulfil your role in promoting good behaviour as part of a whole-school approach. Help support a positive behaviour culture, and find questions to ask to monitor behaviour in your school.