ABSTRACT
The effectiveness of behaviour management in ensuring that pupils conform and that parents reinforce the school’s efforts must obviously depend on awareness of the basic code determined by the head teacher. Prior to the 1997 Act the head merely had to make the disciplinary measures he or she had determined ‘known within the school’. The 1997 Act extended this duty so that the head also had to make the measures generally known to parents and, at least once in every school
year, take steps to bring them to the attention of all pupils, parents, and persons employed at the school.9 The 1998 Act extended this list to include persons engaged to provide services at the school.10
