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
The consequences subgroup is established as part of the Scottish Advisory Group on Relationships and Behaviour in Schools (SAGRABIS), in response to school staff reporting insufficient clarity on appropriate consequences. This work is nested within the policy context for SAGRABIS, but will respond to evidence on the impact of COVID-19 and the cost of living crisis on children and young people.
Membership of the subgroup will comprise:
- Scottish Government – Chair
- Association of Directors of Education Scotland (ADES)
- Association of Scottish Principal Educational Psychologists (ASPEP)
- Convention of Scottish Local Authorities (COSLA)
- Deputy Head, Stirling High School (Stirling)
- Education Scotland
- Education Institute for Scotland (EIS)
- Head Teacher, Brechin High School (Angus)
- Head Teacher, Douglas Academy (East Dunbartonshire)
- Head Teacher, Hazelwood ASL School (Glasgow)
- Head Teacher, Heathfield Primary School (South Ayrshire)
- Head Teacher, Mearns Castle High School (East Renfrewshire)
- Head Teacher, Oban High School (Argyll and Bute)
- Head Teacher, Royal High School (Edinburgh)
- Head Teacher, Saracen Primary School (Glasgow)
- Head Teacher, St Kentigern’s Academy (West Lothian)
- Head Teacher, Stonelaw High School (South Lanarkshire)
- National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers (NASUWT)
- respectme
- School Leaders Scotland
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 Scotland (ADES)
- General Teaching Council for Scotland (GTCS)
- Education Institute for Scotland (EIS)
- Scottish Secondary Teachers Association (SSTA)
- School Leaders Scotland (SLS)
- Association of Headteachers and Deputes Scotland (AHDS)
- National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers (NASUWT)
- Voice the Union
- Association of Scottish Principal Educational Psychologists (ASPEP)
- Scottish Council of Deans of Education (SCDE)
- respectme
- National Parent Forum for Scotland (NPFS)
- Education Scotland
- UNISON
- Support and Wellbeing Unit, Scottish Government
Secretariat will be provided by Scottish Government officials from the Learning Directorate.
Publications
Scottish Advisory Group on Relationships and Behaviour in Schools minutes: May 2024
Scottish Advisory Group on Relationships and Behaviour in Schools minutes: April 2024
Scottish Advisory Group on Relationships and Behaviour in Schools minutes: March 2024
Scottish Advisory Group on Relationships and Behaviour in Schools minutes: January 2024