Positive Behaviour

About Positive Behaviour

The Scottish Government is committed to supporting the creation of peaceful learning environments and promoting positive behaviour in schools.

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The Scottish Government will work in partnership with local government towards agreed outcomes. This includes the outcome that all our children and young people will become successful learners, confident individuals, effective contributors and responsible citizens.

Improving relationships and promoting positive behaviour in schools, and indeed wherever we work with children and young people, underpins the delivery of this outcome.

The approaches we will use

To this end the Positive Behaviour Team currently supports schools and local authorities to introduce and embed approaches to positive behaviour. The approaches include:

Training is offered by the Positive Behaviour Team in each of these approaches as well as in specific programmes which support the development of emotional literacy, including: 

  • Being Cool in School - developed by Fife Council 
  • Inclusion for pupils with social, emotional or behavioural difficulties (from Barnardo's).

The team

Each local authority is linked to a member of the Positive Behaviour Team. You can email Maggie Fallon, the Team Leader, to find out who to contact in respect of your local authority or go to a team list in the contact us section.

The Positive Behaviour website

This site is for 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: everyone who works to improve the lives of Scotland’s children and young people.