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Increase in challenging behaviour from children and parents is impacting teachers’ mental health and wellbeing, charity warns

How boys perceive masculinity can profoundly affect their lives in school and beyond – so they need non-judgmental spaces to explore their identities, School Leaders Scotland told

But most teachers have had no training in how to restrain a student, according to a new Teacher Tapp poll

Online bullying may have more serious consequences, suggests first anti-bullying guidance from Scottish government in seven years

Headteachers’ leaders urge government to restore local authority funding for community services, or risk leaving schools to ‘pick up the pieces’

School leaders in Wales are doing all they can to tackle disruptive behaviour and need to know they are supported, says Laura Doel

A secondary associate principal explains how their school’s programme, which includes training students in violence prevention, has significantly reduced incidents of bullying

Guidance on restraint and seclusion in Scottish schools focuses on prevention – but union says teachers and school leaders will ‘despair’ at lack of practical guidance

Inspectorate must move away from ‘detecting failures only’, Sir Martyn Oliver tells MAT leaders at the Confederation of School Trusts’ conference

Absence rates have not dropped since higher £160 fines were introduced in September, analysis reveals

It’s an uncomfortable reality that attacks against school staff do happen, writes Jarlath O’Brien, but there are steps that leaders can take to reduce the risk