Scottish Advisory Group on Relationships and Behaviour in Schools (SAGRABIS)

Overview

The promotion of positive relationships and behaviour in schools is essential to ensuring all children and young people develop the four capacities at the centre of Curriculum for Excellence. Research has demonstrated that investing time and resources into improving relationships and behaviour in establishments leads to positive outcomes around inclusion, engagement, attainment and achievement in the short term and community safety and cohesion in the longer term.

The work of SAGRABIS sits within a wider policy context which includes Getting it Right for Every Child (GIRFEC), the Early Years Framework, Children’s Rights, and the Building Safer Communities programme which collectively contribute towards the government’s aim of making Scotland the best place in the world to grow up.

The group provides advice to local and national government on behaviour and relationships in schools. It is jointly chaired by the Cabinet Secretary for Education and Skills and COSLA’s spokesman on Education, Children and Young People.

• Consequences subgroup

Members

• Scottish Government (Cabinet Secretary for Education and Skills) – joint Chair    
• COSLA (Children and Young People’s Team) – joint Chair
• Association of Directors of Education in Scotland (ADES)

• Association of Headteachers and Deputes Scotland (AHDS)
• Association of Scottish Principal Educational Psychologists (ASPEP)
• Centre for Excellence for Children's Care and Protection (CELCIS)
• Children & Young People’s Centre for Justice (CYCJ)
• Connect
• Early Years Scotland
• Educational Institute for Scotland (EIS)
• Education Scotland
• General Teaching Council for Scotland (GTCS)
• National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers (NASUWT)
• respectme
• Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists (RCSLT)
• School Leaders Scotland (SLS)
• Scottish Council of Deans of Education (SCDE)
• Scottish Secondary Teachers Association (SSTA)
• Scottish Violence Reduction Unit (SVRU)
• Support and Wellbeing Unit (Scottish Government)
• UNISON

 

Secretariat will be provided by Scottish Government officials from the Learning Directorate.

Publications