Behaviour Safety Governance for Multi-Academy Trusts
Supporting trusts to deliver safe, consistent and legally defensible behaviour practice.
Many trusts discover that behaviour thresholds, documentation and staff response vary significantly between schools — creating avoidable governance risk.
The Positive Handling Academy Behaviour Safety Framework helps trusts align behaviour practice across schools, strengthening safety, consistency and defensibility.



The Challenge Across Many Trusts
Across many Multi-Academy Trusts:
These variations create operational and governance risk.
The Trust Behaviour Safety Framework
Positive Handling Academy supports trusts to align behaviour systems using a structured four‑pillar framework.
Governance Assurance
Trust leaders can demonstrate behaviour practice is defensible and consistent.
System
Alignment
Behaviour thresholds and documentation are aligned across schools
Internal
Capacity
Each school develops an internal Behaviour Safety Lead.
Risk
Reduction
Focus on reducing escalation and improving staff confidence.
Who This Is For
This framework is designed primarily for Multi‑Academy Trusts
These trusts typically experience:


Trust Behaviour Safety Framework Programme
A typical trust engagement includes:
Typical delivery time:
3–4 days per trust.
About Positive Handling Academy
Positive Handling Academy supports schools and Multi‑Academy Trusts to improve behaviour safety, staff confidence and risk management.
The organisation works with education leaders to create consistent behaviour systems that protect staff and support pupils.
Core principle:

Training Services
These training programmes support schools and trusts implementing strong behaviour safety systems.



