Attendance and exclusion

The Scottish Government is committed to supporting the creation of peaceful learning environments and promoting positive behaviour. Building better relationships and improving behaviour in schools, and indeed wherever we work with children and young people, underpins the delivery of the outcomes agreed between the Scottish Government and local government.

To this end, the Scottish Government’s Positive Behaviour Team (all seconded educational practitioners) currently support schools and local authorities to introduce and embed approaches to positive behaviour, including:

• staged intervention
• solution-oriented approaches
• the Motivated School and Social and Emotional Learning Frameworks (SELF)
• restorative practices
• Being Cool in School
• nurture
• emotional literacy
• inclusion for pupils with social, emotional or behavioural difficulties.

Positive Behaviour website

Learning and Teaching Scotland has developed the Scottish Government’s Positive Behaviour website, which contains information on each of the approaches to improving relationships and promoting positive behaviour, examples of good practice and training information. 

The site is aimed at everyone who has an interest in promoting positive relationships with children and young people including teachers, headteachers, additional support staff, local authority staff, directors of education, partners from children’s services and the voluntary sector, and anyone who works to improve the lives of Scotland’s children and young people.