A whole-school framework for behaviour, wellbeing, and safeguarding in Irish schools
They happen because students are overwhelmed and adults are under pressure.
Most schools are trying to manage behaviour without a shared, safety-led system — leaving individual teachers to make high-stakes decisions alone, in the moment.
This framework changes that.
The NeuroSmart Safe and Regulated Classroom Framework gives schools a clear, defensible way to respond to behaviour that prioritises:
Safety before reaction
Regulation before correction
Predictable adult responses
Proportionate, ethical decision-making
It replaces guesswork and inconsistency with a shared professional approach that works in mainstream and special class settings.
Reduce behavioural escalation
Support autistic and vulnerable students safely
Move away from punitive or reactive systems
Protect staff from burnout and complaint risk
Align behaviour, wellbeing, safeguarding, and inclusion
Primary and post-primary schools
Mainstream classrooms
Special classes and SEN settings
Whole-school adoption
Increased dysregulation and emotional distress
Staff uncertainty about 'what to do next'
Inconsistent responses across classrooms
Over-reliance on sanctions that don't work
Fear of getting behaviour responses wrong
Escalation increases
Staff confidence drops
Students feel unsafe
Leadership carries unnecessary risk
✕A behaviour management programme
✕A reward or sanction system
✕A rigid script
✕A one-off training
A whole-school framework
Grounded in nervous system regulation
Aligned with LAOS, safeguarding, and wellbeing
Practical, inspectable, and defensible
It gives staff a clear answer to:
"What is the safest, most proportionate response right now?"
• Professional rationale and duty of care alignment
• Six clear safety anchors for decision-making
• Guidance for mainstream and special classes
• Regulation Support Plans
• If–Then response pathways
• Incident response records (non-punitive)
• Repair and restoration logs
• Environmental and systems review tools
• Code of Behaviour wording
• Wellbeing Policy alignment
• Child Safeguarding alignment
• LAOS mapping
• Board of Management briefing note
Everything is designed to be used, not admired.
Because it focuses on:
Prevention, not punishment
Consistency, not individual heroics
Systems, not blame
Safety, not compliance
Students escalate less
Recovery is faster
Staff feel safer
Learning improves
Fewer high-intensity incidents
Increased staff confidence
Clearer communication with families
Better consistency across settings
Reduced reliance on exclusionary practices
Most importantly:
Students experience school as safer — and staff stop feeling exposed.
Uses Irish education language
Aligns with Looking at Our School
Supports safeguarding obligations
Respects professional judgement
Works within real-world constraints
It is designed to stand up to inspection, not just theory.
Introduce the framework to staff
Agree shared language and principles
Use the tools where needed (not everywhere)
Review and refine through SSE
It scales at the school's pace.
This framework exists so staff can say:
"We didn't improvise.
We followed an agreed, safety-led framework."
That sentence matters.
If your school is ready to move towards:
then the NeuroSmart Safe and Regulated Classroom Framework provides the structure to do so. Learn more about how schools implement the framework.
For pricing, licensing, or school adoption details, get in touch.