Violent young pupils unfit for school, behaviour tsar says It was now rarer to have "no-go areas where teachers fear to tread at lunchtimes and break times," he said. But he told the Education Select Committee: "I do think there's a group of children who show very extreme behaviour, very difficult, challenging, violent behaviour, often quite young children, and I would say possibly there has been an increase in those sorts of children. You can still be a school who is good on behaviour and still have pupils like that within your school because you're doing a good job with them. But nevertheless there are certainly a group of children who need extra interventions, who need more help, who need more support and for whom the basic standards of just a really well-run school aren't enough. The comments come after a publication of a report by Mr Taylor, former head teacher of The Willows, a special school in west London, into education for the worst-behaved children. The review suggested it was appropriate for some children as young as five and six with the most serious difficulties to spend time at institutes for the most unruly pupils. High-quality pupil referral units could be used to get unruly pupils "back on the straight and narrow," it said. Mr Taylor was recently appointed as the first chief executive of the Teaching Agency, a new quango set-up to oversee teacher training. He takes up his post in September. Speaking in Westminster, Mr Taylor raised concerns that some training courses were failing to give would-be teachers enough tuition about how to deal with bad behaviour. "Sometimes behaviour gets pigeon-holed as a one-off lecture at the beginning of the year," he said.