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This guidance is for:

• school leaders
• school staff
• governing bodies
• trust boards and proprietors
• local authorities

It applies to:

• maintained schools - community, foundation or voluntary school, community or foundation special school, and maintained nursery school, pupil referral units and non-maintained special schools
• academies - including mainstream and special free schools and alternative provision academies - including alternative provision free schools

Use this document and the further guidance and resources for guidance on how to promote good behaviour in school.

Please read this alongside School suspensions and permanent exclusion and Searching, screening and confiscation at school.