It will also provide additional training for teachers, school nurses and counselors to help identify mental illness in students and respond to psychiatric emergencies.

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Paula Kitching, of the Historical Association, said the new course would be a positive step, but it should be geared to all ability levels and supported by more in-service training for teachers.

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The National Union Teachers said it fully supported the recommendations and would welcome provision for extra training.

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Head teachers' union NAHT Cymru said it believed the code, along with appropriate training for drivers, could have a positive impact on behaviour and make journeys safer for all.

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For all that, it is strongly backed by schools of education, which have a monopoly of teacher-training, and by teachers' unions, whose members make more money when it is artificially hard for others to get into the profession.

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