Rating description:
- Fully met: The recording system for recording bullying includes action taken, outcomes and review dates.
- Partially met: There is a recording system but it does not include action taken or outcomes or review dates.
- Not yet met: There is not a recording system.
Tips:
- Recording bullying is very important for a number of reasons:
- Especially in secondary schools where pupils will see multiple teachers during the day, it helps to see a picture of incidents and to understand patterns of behaviour
- It evidences your school actions and will help to keep children safe
- It helps you to learn and review anti-bullying practice as a whole-school
- When recording incidents it is important to note:
- Time and dates of incidents
- Individuals involved (ideally within the framing of roles involved - see what is bullying? free CPD online module)
- Type of bullying e.g. physical, verbal, rumour spreading, etc.
- Whether or not it is a safeguarding issue
- Where bullying has happened
- What has happened
- How the target/s have been affected (evidence if any injuries)
- Witnesses to the bullying
- If it was targeting something about their identity e.g. disability, race, faith, gender.
- Action taken and led by
- What does the target want to happen?
- How effective action taken has been
- Who knows? Have parents been informed?
- It may also be appropriate for parents to keep a bullying incident log as well. Contact have produced a guide for parents along with a template complaint letter and bullying incident diary (attached below).
Resources and examples:
You can see tools and case studies in the attachments section below.
Schools who took part in our programmes said:
Data monitoring and bullying log enables bullying behaviours to be logged along with support and action taken. Outcomes can then be logged and support implemented and regular reviews for middle managers meeting and governing committee enables review of data to be undertaken.
Recorded on behaviour log, by deputy head. Continual monitoring of behaviour takes place and children who begin to exhibit bullying behaviour are enabled to consider the impact of this and directed towards other choices. Support is given to children who are treated unkindly by others.
We have introduced a vulnerability matrix to monitor students and review their progress during and after bullying issues. All reviews are shared with parents and where appropriate the staff.
Systems have been reviewed to include actions, responsible persons and dates for actions, ensuring issues are addressed effectively. As a result, more effective use is made of pastoral interventions, as there is a more unfied and joined-up approach across school, especially with a senior leader leading Anti-Bullying.