Relationships and behaviour in schools: national action plan 2024 to 2027

Theme 4: Supporting the workforce

Action 12: Support all education settings to have a planned and ongoing programme to promote staff wellbeing.

Action 13: Empower staff through provision of relevant professional learning to support relationships and behaviour approaches and practice and to respond to emerging trends in behaviour.

Action 14: Identify and promote the approaches to curriculum design, pedagogy, and assessment to facilitate learner engagement of all children and young people.

Key deliverables (how the actions will be supported and implemented)

During phase 1:

• Consider the outcomes of the joint SG / ADES Education Workforce Health & Wellbeing Support Project and next steps on improving existing wellbeing support that is provided by local authorities and teaching unions.
• Promote learning resources to support local authorities and schools to understand the underlying causes of absence and disengagement and consider how best to support improvement using relationship building, nurturing, trauma-informed approaches.
• Scope development of learning on emerging areas of concern, including gender-based violence and far-right extremism.

During phase 2:

• Identify and promote resources and professional development available to staff and schools on relationships and behaviour in schools, and recording and monitoring of incidents.
• Identify, develop and promote professional learning and resources on relational practice (including universal and targeted supports).

In all phases:

• Seek to ensure educational settings have a proactive and responsive approach to promoting and maintaining staff wellbeing and provide support following incidents.
• Identify and promote resources and professional learning resources available to staff and schools on relationships and behaviour in schools, rights and equalities, wellbeing, care and inclusion, and recording and monitoring of incidents.