Policing in schools

Description

Ted Wragg directs teachers and managers using role play to provide solutions to challenging problems.Investigate how teachers can ensure a safe school environment and prevent their challenging pupils from getting involved in crime. This programme considers whether having the police based full-time on school premises would help or hinder.Eight experts respond to an imaginary case study that poses dilemmas created through handling troubled youngsters. Professor Ted Wragg asks a panel of teachers, governors and policemen to tackle the issues of pupils carrying offensive weapons, drug abuse, and stealing at school and within the community. Our panellists include: Philip O Hear, head of Capital City Academy; Robin Bosher, head teacher from Fairlawn Primary School; Christ West, a police officer from the Haringey Safer Schools Team and Paul Mihill, a police officer from the Greenwich Youth Offending Team.

Runtime

28 min

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Date of Publication

2005

Database

Alexander Street

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