Children: Anti-social Behaviour

(asked on 18th June 2025) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has had recent discussions with schools on a potential strategy to dissuade antisocial behaviour by children.


Answered by
Stephen Morgan Portrait
Stephen Morgan
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Education)
This question was answered on 26th June 2025

The department regularly engages with teachers and headteachers and their representative bodies on a range of issues, including pupil behaviour.

As part of the Safer Streets Summer Initiative, we are setting up a working group of 16 local authorities specifically looking at preventing antisocial behaviour through our holiday activities and food (HAF) programme. The working group will strengthen collaboration among local authorities and be an opportunity for local authorities to buddy up, share best practice and improve outcomes.

The department’s existing ‘Behaviour in schools’ guidance states that schools should make clear to pupils that good behaviour does not end at the school gates.

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