Key Issues for Primary Schools

Key Issues for Primary Schools is a concise comprehensive guide to the main issues in primary education and the implications for schools. Presented in a convenient A-Z format, the book includes coverage of: special educational needs attendance, truancy and exclusion bullying and behavioural problems management and administration safety and security.There is also a review of up-to-date DfEE requirements and suggestions for further action and reading. The addresses of useful contacts help to make it a reference book no primary school should be without.

Michael Farrell is an education inspector for the London Borough of Hillingdon. He trained as a teacher and psychologist and has been a head teacher and a lecturer at the Institute of Education.