Supporting Our Schools


We will give more powers to teachers to set school discipline For too long Labour has treated adults like children and children like adults.  Nowhere is this seen more than in the school classroom, where teachers can face being suspended until they prove their innocence against malicious claims. 

We need to give teachers more respect and support in school, and let head teachers run their schools without constant Government interference.

That is why Steve Barclay has backed calls for new powers for school head teachers to restore school discipline and impose proper codes of behaviour. The Conservative Party has set out a series of measures to restore respect among hard-to-teach children. The action plan includes:

•an end to appeals panels that overrule expulsions and second-guess head teachers’ decisions to exclude pupils. Parents should still have a right of appeal to school governors,
•making home-school contracts enforceable, as requirements of admission and grounds for exclusion,
•protecting teachers from spurious allegations, giving them anonymity until their case has been concluded.

Schools should be places where teachers teach and children learn. We need to promote a culture of respect from students for their teachers. Headteachers need to be set free to impose codes of behaviour and discipline, and know they will be backed up by Parliament rather than undermined by misguided left-wing legislation.

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