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Education union wants DESC leadership on discipline

Calls for multi-agency approach for disruptive pupils

A union has called on government to put forward a central behaviour policy for schools.

The NASUWT wants the Department of Education, Sport and Culture to bring forward a multi-agency approach to dealing with disruptive students.

It comes as the department's consulting on a draft strategy for a new education act following the withdrawal of a contentious bill earlier this year.  

Geraldine O'Neill, the local negotiating secretary, says the current system isn't up to scratch:

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