Managing Referrals to Improve Behaviour

White Paper - Managing Referrals to Improve Behaviour

After only one term of the new framework, DCFS analysis of recent inspections shows that, "schools are struggling to achieve or maintain a good behaviour judgement".

This white paper explains the importance of a system for monitoring behaviour to feed into the school self-evaluation process. The SEF requires evidence that schools are improving behaviour and this paper explains a practical solution for all schools to demonstrate that their behaviour management is effective and has led to improvements in behaviour:

• How to transform the role of Middle-Leaders
• How to manage referrals electronically
• What to record and when, including a flowchart
• How to measure and demonstrate behaviour improvement

Read the white paper

Sleuth is an electronic referral system that records exactly what has taken place in an incident. Every incident is recorded with the right level of detail for your school and behaviour policy, objectively and consistently, so staff can deal with a referral without having to chase down more information. Using Sleuth means their response to the referral is not only timely, but effective and appropriate for the student concerned.

Features for managing referrals in Sleuth (that you won’t find in your school MIS):

• My Outstanding Referrals - In Sleuth, every staff member automatically sees their outstanding referrals when they login, these are highlighted until dealt with
• All Outcomes Recorded - For a single incident a student may be referred/actioned by several staff, Sleuth records each intervention. A record of each intervention used by staff, for each student, is crucial. Without this it is not possible to monitor staff response to behaviour and their interpretation of policy
• Alerts for On-Call Staff - For On-Call staff, Sleuth can also email a referral alert which can be received as an SMS message on staff mobile telephones using an SMS messaging service
• Progress of Referrals - When students are issued with a sanction or reward (by any staff member) their mentor/form tutor is notified so they can follow-up in tutor time
• Analysis to Measure Improvement - Sleuth records detailed observations about behaviour to provide an opportunity for detailed analysis. Reports identify referrals by department and/or staff so CPD can be tailored to improve classroom management

Managing Referrals is just one example of how Sleuth can be used, it is also used to:

• Provide Evidence for the SEF
• Monitor Interventions
• Evaluate Policy
• Manage Rewards
• Manage Detentions
• Support Transition
• Manage your SEAL Programme
• Support SEN