Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what his timescale is for responding to his Department's consultation on Behaviour management strategies, in-school units and managed moves which closed on the 29 June 2021.

The Department used the responses from the call for evidence on behaviour management strategies, in-school units and managed moves, which was launched on 29 June 2021 and closed on 10 August 2021, to inform the updated Behaviour in Schools guidance and Suspension and Permanent Exclusion guidance.

A public consultation on the updated Behaviour in Schools guidance and the Suspension and Permanent Exclusion guidance was launched on 3 February 2022 and closed on 31 March 2022. The updated Behaviour in Schools guidance, updated Suspension and Permanent Exclusion guidance and government response to the consultation were published on 13 July and can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/revised-behaviour-in-schools-guidance-and-suspension-and-permanent-exclusions-guidance.