Physical intervention in schools: draft guidance

Annex F: Roles and responsibilities summary

Education providers (Education authorities/managers of grant-aided schools/proprietors of independent schools, insofar as applicable)

• Overall responsibility for additional support for learning provision and legal compliance (Human Rights Act 1998 and Equality Act 2010) in relation to service provision.
• Overall responsibility in relation to duty of care to children and young people and staff, and health and safety, in their schools.
• Overall responsibility for the delivery of additional support for learning provision.

• Co-ordinated support plans/multi-agency planning and support.
• Inter-agency protocols and agreements regarding resources and response timescales.
• Agreement, with the relevant staff trade unions, of the education provider's physical intervention policy, including details of its restraint reduction policy, and any subsequent requirements in relation to job descriptions and workload demands.
• Active monitoring, scrutiny and challenge of restraint data and practice to minimise the use of restraint and eliminate its misuse.
• Workforce training and development.
• Investigation of complaints and conduct of local disciplinary processes in relation to the use of restraint.

Headteachers

• Day-to-day responsibility in relation to duty of care to children and young people and staff, and health and safety, in their schools.
• Day-to-day responsibility for the delivery of additional support for learning provision.
• Local delivery of the education provider's physical intervention policy.
• Responsibility for providing strategic leadership for meeting children and young people's needs.
• Recognise and respect the rights of children and young people.

School staff

• Responsibility to support the health, safety and wellbeing of children and young people.
• Local delivery of the education provider's physical intervention policy.
• Recognise and respect the rights of children and young people.