Schools - improving relationships and behaviour: progress report 2025
This is the first annual progress report on the relationships and behaviour in schools action plan 2024 to 2027 'ensuring safe and consistent environments for all'. This progress report details activity between November 2023 and March 2025.
Theme 8: Policy cohesion
Action 20: Ensure alignment with existing cross-government policy commitments that seek to support children and young people to reach their full potential.
As has been highlighted across this report, there are various other government policies and strategies that are contributing to the outcomes of the action plan, and activity taken forward under these other strategies have been cited in this report.
To ensure the work of SAGRABIS in implementing the action plan is sufficiently aligned with the broader policy landscape, the following actions have been undertaken during phase 1.
- The membership of SAGRABIS has been widened to include representation from the justice, health, early years, and care-experienced sectors, including organisations that can bring perspectives from children and young people.
- Policy officials have attended the Additional Support Needs Project Board to raise the profile and promote the work being delivered through the action plan, and to ensure alignment with additional support for learning policy.
- Views have been sought from the Gender Equality Taskforce on Education and Learning during the development of the action plan, and work on consequences, to consider these publications through a gendered lens.
- Links were made between the update of Respect for All and the Racism and Racist Incidents Workstream of the Anti-Racism in Education Programme, to ensure these pieces of work are consistent.
During phase 2, work will continue to ensure cohesion with other national policies, including the mental health and wellbeing strategy and The Promise.