The problem of badly-behaved children in the classroom is one with wide-ranging effects. For a start, there is the disruption to other children in school who suffer from the disturbances caused by ill-behaved pupils and who take up more and more of the teachers' time.

Then the children who are disruptive suffer because their education is curtailed and they might find themselves suspended or excluded from school - sometimes when the cause of their behavioural problems is rooted in issues that they themselves might have no control over.

Education Bradford is attempting to tackle this two-fold problem with a scheme to take disruptive children out of the classroom but to enable them to return and continue their education.

On paper it is a scheme that would seem to find solutions for both problems. Special centres will be set up in primary schools so that disruptive pupils can continue to be taught and can be re-educated in more appropriate behaviour.

Education Bradford hopes to cut down on the numbers being excluded from school and to enable the badly-behaved pupils to return to the classrooms and integrate with their peers.

There is even talk of "anger management" lessons to help disruptive children come to terms with the problems that cause them to make trouble for others.

Education Bradford is to be applauded for taking this step and ensuring that the badly-behaved youngsters are given every chance to take the opportunities offered to them at school - opportunities which, if refused, may be lost forever.

At the same time, those children who are willing to learn must be given every opportunity to do so - and if that means taking out the distractions, then that is what must be done.