Tag: behaviour
SEN exclusions are “unacceptably high”
Children with SEN are nine times more likely to be excluded from school than those with no identified special need. A new report by...
Feelings into words
Trisha Waters looks at how therapeutic storywriting can help troubled children deal with their emotions
Survey of unofficial exclusions
Contact a Family is seeking the views of parents with disabled children who may have been unofficially excluded from school.
The charity, which runs the...
Nowhere to turn for teenage self-harmers
Most young people and their parents do not know how to find support if they are involved in self-harm. Despite a dramatic increase in...
New child mental health initiative
The Department of Health is to fund a consortium of experts to deliver a £2.2m educational and advice programme to improve mental health outcomes...
Attending to absence
Collaboration in and out of school is the only way to tackle persistent truancy, says Wendy Weal