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ABC charts are an excellent means of tracking and evaluating children's behaviour, explain Rachel Lo and Ann Henderson in their new book, The Social Child. All children attending early years settings ...

Police are being urged to let more vandals, joyriders and teenage drunks escape punishment if they agree to sign a good behaviour "contract". The Acceptable Behaviour Contracts are handed out instead ...

Youths have been issued with acceptable behaviour contracts (ABCs) in a bid to curb nuisance behaviour in part of Oxford. The contracts, the first in Jericho, are designed to prevent the teenagers, ...