Mobile phone ban in England’s school behaviour crackdow

UK Education Secretary Gavin Williamson warned that long periods in lockdown has impacted children's "discipline and order" as his education department prepares to announce a 10 million-pound Behaviour Hubs programme.

Forbidding the use of mobile phones and maintaining quiet corridors are among the measures to be deployed as part of a government-backed poor behaviour crackdown in England schools. Heads and behaviour leads from some of the country’s highest performing schools were on Wednesday confirmed as mentors and trainers in the Department for Education’s (DfE) 10 million-pound Behaviour Hubs programme. Designed to support schools struggling with poor discipline, training through the Behaviour Hubs for the first group of participating schools will commence in the coming months as children return to classes after periods of lockdown.