14-YEAR-OLD’S SIMPLE RULE FOR ONLINE TROLLS Online trolls have been urged to follow one simple rule before hitting send: would you actually say it to the person’s face? The advice came from 14-year-old Maya and her father Usman Dar, from humanitarian charity Humanity Care Relief, who said pausing before reacting online could help make social media a…
Anti-Bullying Week (11–15 November) is a vital moment in the school calendar to promote kindness, inclusion and respect. This year, Premier League Primary Stars is supporting schools with a brand-new, free resource: Power for Good, developed in collaboration with the Anti-Bullying Alliance. Using the universal language of football, the Power for Good lesson helps pupils:…
A major new study by experts from The University of Manchester has found that bullying has a significant negative impact on the mental health of teenagers – particularly for boys – and has highlighted the need for more effective prevention strategies in schools. The research, which utilised #BeeWell data from over 26000 young people who…
With the summer holidays fast approaching, many kids will be looking forward to the break and time to enjoy themselves outside of school. But for some children, the summer holidays can be a stressful time when online interactions with their friends and classmates can result in harmful cyberbullying. In these cases it’s vital that parents…
Katherine Howard, Smoothwall’s Head of Education and Wellbeing, talks about technology’s role in the rise of bullying but more importantly, how technology can be crucial in helping schools identify potential instances of bullying and intervene. First things first, cyberbullying is just bullying under a different guise. It’s the same thing and bullying is not…
Ahead of Safer Internet Day 2022 (8 February), online safeguarding experts are urging parents and carers to continue to keep a close watch on their child’s online activities and to be aware of the signs of cyberbullying. More than 1.7million laptops and tablets have been delivered to schools, colleges and local authorities as part…
Barking and Dagenham has seen the biggest increase in school bullying exclusions during lockdown – a 200% year-on-year rise 10 local authorities saw bullying rates more than double between 2018/19 and 2019/20 Across England, the average number of exclusions for bullying has dropped by 31% England’s worst areas for school bullying during lockdown have been revealed in new research that has explored the number…
