This week marks Anti-Bullying Week, giving us the vital opportunity to raise awareness of what has been and continues to be a serious problem among children and young people, and to highlight ways of preventing and responding to it.
It saddens me to report that bullying remains one of the most common reasons why children and young people contact our free and confidential service, Childline, with our counsellors delivering 25,740 counselling sessions about the issue last year (2015/16) alone.
And these are just the ones who reached out to us. Despite efforts from schools and organisations to respond and reduce bullying, some children are still contacting us because they are too afraid to speak out because they think it will make the problem even worse.
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