What level of communication do schools have with each other?

[janeeire244]

What level of communication do schools have with each other?

For example, suppose a child from school A was caught bullying students from another school (school B) and was caught going on that school's premises during school time when they should have been at their own school, what action could school B take beyond informing the child's parents or the police?

It is not like they could give a detention to a student from another school.

Could they possibly tell school A what was going on? Do schools talk to each other over things like that? Would school A have any authority to reprimand the child with detentions over something that did not happen in their school?

I would say absolutely they would communicate on this. Our school will give detention for "bringing the school onto dispute" for the children's behaviour in town. This sounds much worse than that.

Disrepute not dispute

The child's own school, school A, would do all the communication with parents and sanctions.

Yes, schools talk to each other about behaviour incidents like this.

"Would school A have any authority to reprimand the child with detentions over something that did not happen in their school?"

@janeeire244 have a look at School A's behaviour policy on its website. If it's anything like ours it will explicitly state that, within reason, it applies to incidents off premises and outside of school hours when they are reported to the school.

They should communicate, as that student is committing multiple offences - trespass, assault/threatening behaviour (for example).

The DSLs at least, if not the Heads, should be communicating regularly to address this risk and the intruder should be treated in accordance with their school's behaviour policy.