Written question asked by Andrew Selous (Conservative) on Tuesday, 2 March 2010, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Monday, 8 March 2010. It was answered by Lord Coaker (Labour) on Monday, 8 March 2010 on behalf of the Department for Children, Schools and Families.

Discipline

Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what steps his Department is taking to help teachers maintain discipline in schools.

Answer: This Government have given teachers a range of powers to tackle poor behaviour including, for the first time, a clear statutory power to discipline pupils. We have also provided support, guidance and consultancy to schools on behaviour improvement. Our behaviour challenge launched last September, sets out a series of actions to drive behaviour standards higher—enabling all schools to be not simply satisfactory in their behaviour standards but good or outstanding.

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