1. Amend Pupil Premium guidance in England and Pupil Development Grant guidance in Wales to explicitly encourage schools and AP/EOTAS settings to invest in evidence-based violence reduction.
2. Provide £100m of targeted funding over five years to deliver evidence-based violence reduction activities for children most at risk of involvement in violence.
3. Amend Ofsted’s proposed inspection toolkits to assess how settings support suspended children and safeguard children from violence.
4. Extend the Alternative Provision Specialist Taskforce for five years in England and begin piloting it in Wales (provided the evaluation shows positive results).
5. Pilot and scale up a VAWG lead training grant programme in secondary schools, colleges and AP/EOTAS settings.
6. Reform the current National Professional Qualifications (NPQs) to include a focus on protecting children from violence and establish a new NPQ for keeping children safe.
7. Scale up impactful attendance improvement interventions and publish a strategy to improve attendance in AP in England and EOTAS in Wales.
8. Publish a joint strategy between the Ministry of Justice, the Department for Education in England and the Welsh Government to improve the education received by children in custody across England and Wales.
