Part 7

Discipline, behaviour and exclusion
Chapter 2

Parental responsibilities and excluded pupils

Parenting contracts and parenting orders

Parenting contracts
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1
Section 19 of the Anti-social Behaviour Act 2003 (c. 38) (parenting contracts in cases of exclusion from school or truancy) is amended as follows.
2
After subsection (1) insert—
1A
This section also applies where a local education authority or the governing body of a relevant school have reason to believe that a child who is a registered pupil at a relevant school has engaged in behaviour connected with the school which—
a
has caused, or is likely to cause—
i
significant disruption to the education of other pupils, or
ii
significant detriment to the welfare of the child himself or of other pupils or to the health or safety of any staff, or
b
forms part of a pattern of behaviour which (if continued) will give rise to a risk of future exclusion from the school on disciplinary grounds.
1B
For the purposes of subsection (1A) the child’s behaviour is connected with the school to the extent that it consists of—
a
conduct at the school, or
b
conduct elsewhere in circumstances in which it would be reasonable for the school to regulate his conduct.
3
In subsection (6), after “subsection (1)” insert “or (1A)”.
4
In the heading to the section, and in the italic cross-heading immediately before the section, for “exclusion from” substitute “misbehaviour at”.