How can we make the most out of Anti-Bullying Week in schools? Martha Evans looks forward to a week when young people’s stance on bullying takes centre stage

It has been 15 years since we first started running Anti-Bullying Week is schools across England. With this year’s Anti-Bullying Week coming up from November 13 to 17, we have been looking to make sure that it is as fresh an interesting as possible.

Some of the 60-plus young people who responded to our Anti-Bullying Week survey in January indicated that Anti-Bullying Week and school’s anti-bullying activity was something that schools made them do.

They would say things like “yeah, school did an assembly to us about it” or “they put up a poster”.

It seemed that some children thought of Anti-Bullying Week as something that teachers dreamed up in the staffroom.

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