Guest: Huw Lloyd of CPI (Crisis Prevention), presenting findings from CPI's own school behaviour survey. Published 16 October 2023 (a Twitter/X Spaces recording).

What this covers

  • CPI's survey finding that 9 in 10 of the 400 teachers who responded felt behaviour had got worse since COVID.
  • The causes respondents gave: mental health and anxiety, concentration and phones, inconsistent staff approaches, less parental support and weaker teacher-pupil relationships.
  • Moving from reacting to behaviour problems to planning for them.

Before you act on it

The DfE's behaviour in schools guidance sets out what a whole-school behaviour policy should cover, and mental health and behaviour in schools covers behaviour that may stem from unmet mental health needs. The survey is CPI's own, of teachers who chose to respond.

About the session

This Twitter Spaces conversation is with Huw Lloyd from Crisis Prevention.

Key Discussion Point:

CPI’s recent School Behaviour survey found out of the 400 teachers who responded 9 in 10 felt behaviour changed for the worse since COVID.

They believed this to be due to

  • The link between mental health (increase in anxiety and lack of resilience, post covid) and behaviour
  • Difference in concentration levels (citing common causes of social media and mobile phones) and general apathy towards learning
  • Lack of a consistent approach from staff, to behaviour management
  • Decreasing parent support
  • Detachment of learner-teacher relationship