Rating description:
- Fully met: The whole school community including staff, pupils and parents are aware of and understand the impact bullying can have on learning and wellbeing. Staff understand when bullying should be considered a safeguarding issue.
- Partially met: Most of the school community - including staff, pupils and parents - are aware of and understand the impact bullying can have on learning and wellbeing. Most staff understand when bullying should be considered a safeguarding issue.
- Not yet met: Not yet met: The school community are not aware of and do not understand the impact bullying can have on learning and wellbeing. Some staff understand when bullying should be considered a safeguarding issue.
Tips:
- We know through various studies over the decades that bullying has a substantial impact on the mental health, wellbeing, physical health and safety of children. We also know that children who are bullied go on the achieve less well in schools than other children. The research can be found here.
- The impact of bullying on mental health and wellbeing is very apparent and you can find research about this here.
- Bullying can often be a safeguarding issue. It's vital that your school staff know when to treat it as such. A way of doing this might be to get them to complete ABA's online CPD training module on bullying and the law or to download and send out ABA's briefing on bullying and the law.
Resources and examples:
You can see tools and case studies in the attachments section below.
Schools who took part in our previous programme said:
All staff complete an online Safeguarding Course every Sept within which bullying is revisited. As a result, bullying maintains a hgh profile from the start of the year. In addition, as a school, we consider inclusion to be at the heart of our provision.
As a school we recognise the barriers that bullying can cause to children within our school. We monitor children's attendance as well a having regular safeguarding meetings and updates which are then forwarded to staff of children that are vulnarable or at risk so they can be monitored more closely. Children who complain of feeling unwell are always seen by a first aider as well as the school Family Support Worker to talk about how they are feeling in case it is not just sickness but anxiety or worries.
The results of a staff survey at the end of this year show that this training has been effective as all staff felt 'confident' or 'very confident' that they could explain what bullying was to a parent, knew how to report it and all said they knew who to ask if they required more information or needed to see our anti-bullying policy.
Bullying has been included on our safeguarding systems as a category that flags up as a concern. Staff understand that the impacts on young people know to report bullying via our safeguarding systems. The health and well-being team have started work with students who are victims of bullying to re-build their confidence and they liaise with the school nurse service if we have concerns around physical health and make appropriate referrals with regards to mental health concerns.
