Safeguarding

One senior leader who attended an emergency services critical incident response course talks about what he learned and the value for fellow school leaders

Rather than debating mobile phone bans, schools should be encouraging young people to develop healthy habits in their digital consumption, writes Margaret Mulholland

A new bronze, silver and gold rating system showing a school’s approach to smartphone use aims to increase confidence to push for full bans, says scheme co-founder Max Haimendorf

The wait for this year’s Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance, which was due to contain ‘substantive’ changes, is causing ‘unnecessary anxiety’, warn safeguarding leads

Do you have to like your students, or even ‘love’ them, to be a good teacher? Bernard Andrews goes on the hunt for a definition of pedagogical love

Students’ use of drugs and alcohol is contributing to violent and disruptive behaviour in schools, teaching union warns

The petition – published on the Scottish Parliament website – is calling for the GTCS to be replaced by a government agency

An international head explains the complexities of deciding whether or not to let a controversial speaker come to the school – even after complaints from parents

Operation Encompass should ensure that schools are made aware of children exposed to domestic violence the day after an incident is logged by police – but the system is failing all too often, as Ellen Peirson-Hagger uncovers

Scotland’s teaching watchdog is also calling for ‘urgent and coordinated action’ to enhance the attractiveness of teaching as a career

Tomas Thurogood-Hyde talks to Tes about a typical week in his role – from joining safeguarding reviews to handling radio spectrum license issues

Should schools have to report the use of restraint and seclusion? This is one question MSPs are asking as they seek teachers views’ on proposed new legislation