Schools - risk assessment guidance: equality impact assessment

Executive summary

The EQIA considered the guidance established on Fostering a Positive, Inclusive and Safe Environment Guidance and the Schools - violent, aggressive and dangerous behaviour: risk assessment guidance. They seek through guidance, to support schools to foster a positive, inclusive and safe school environment through their approaches to positive relationships and behaviour. They provide clarity to all members of a school community – staff, parents and children and young people – on how to embed consistency of practice for setting and upholding of expectations of behaviour, including the use of consequences as part of relationships and behaviour policies, and clarity to local authorities and educational settings on appropriately using risk assessment processes to mitigate or minimise violent, aggressive, and dangerous behaviours exhibited by children and young people at school