Bullying
- Bullying is a serious problem for too many pupils, although most schools have good strategies to deal with the problem.
- However, some children suffer throughout their school career with bullying, and find their school either denies the problem or seeks to blame the victim for creating a bullying climate.
- There is much advice around on anti-bullying strategies, for example at www.bullying.co.uk, which also offers links to other sites.
- Above all, do not accept the advice that if you ignore bullying, it will go away. Without intervention it rarely does.
- My role is to secure action from the school to tackle bullying for the benefit of the individual pupil.