This year’s Anti-Bullying Week (November 16 to 20) is focusing on the damage that bullying causes to mental health and wellbeing – encouraging pupils and schools to #MakeANoise about bullying.
It is in part a response to research that shows bullying is a fact of life for a significant number of children and young people. Nearly a third of young people taking part in the Health Behaviour in School-aged Children 2015 study reported they had been bullied at school in the past couple of months. Research shows that these young people suffer increased levels of depression, anxiety and self-harm.
Because bullying occurs wherever there are groups of children and young people, schools mustn’t become complacent, either thinking it is an unavoidable inevitability or that their “no tolerance” policy means that it isn’t happening.
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