On 30 September 2009 the Secretary of State launched a new behaviour strategy to improve pupil behaviour in schools. The central elements of the behaviour strategy are:

• the new Behaviour Challenge, through which schools that have only a 'satisfactory' Ofsted grade for behaviour will be encouraged and supported to work towards the 'good' or 'outstanding' standard
• making behaviour improvement a priority for the Good and Great Schools programme
  engaging parents through a new leaflet on how they can work with schools on pupil behaviour issues.
• The Behaviour Challenge reflects a key recommendation of Sir Alan Steer's final report on behaviour standards and practices in schools (Learning behaviour: Lessons learned) in which he made clear that an Ofsted judgement of 'satisfactory' on behaviour should not be seen as good enough and should trigger additional support.

The Behaviour Challenge also takes forward the commitments in the 21st-century Schools White Paper on the Pupil Guarantee, about every pupil going to a school where there is good behaviour, strong discipline, order and safety; and the Parent Guarantee, about ensuring parents fulfil their responsibilities for pupil behaviour.
 
The documents launched as part of the behaviour strategy are:

• Delivering the Behaviour Challenge and Sir Alan Steer's response letter to the behaviour strategy
• the booklet Working together for good behaviour in schools: Information for parents and carers
• Sir Alan Steer's Final Recommendations on Pupil Behaviour: Implementation Plan and the DCSF�s response to those recommendations
• the DCSF responses to recommendations from Steer's earlier reports, reproduced from Learning behaviour: Lessons learned, linked below.