Rating description:
- Fully met: We do not focus our school responses to bullying on changing the behaviour of the pupil/s who are being bullied
- Partially met: Most responses to school bullying do not focus on changing the behaviour of the pupil/s who are being bullied
- Not yet met: Responses to school bullying do not focus on changing the behaviour of the pupil/s who are being bullied
Tips:
- This goal is vital to how young people feel about themselves after they have been bullied. If the response to bullying is to change the behaviour of the person who has experienced the bullying e.g. to ask them to spend break time in a different area, to tell them to change an aspect of their personality - then this can send a message to the young person that the bullying is their fault.
- Instead as a school community, we should send the message to children that bullying is not okay no matter whether you like the person, they are annoying you, or you don't understand their behaviour. Everyone in the school community deserves respect.
- To help you when developing your response strategies, we have developed a social model checklist for schools to use.
- We recommend using our 3-step response to bullying framework to help you develop a consistent, reflective and more effective approach to responding to bullying incidence.
- We also recommend taking our CPD online course on 'Bullying and Difference'.
Schools that took part in our programme said:
All reports of bullying should be dealt with using the new record/response sheets. They have been created in a way that enables the adult to collect all the relevant information including what has happened as well as who was involved. As part of the action plan part of the form, all parties involved are spoken to regarding their role in the incident (bystander role).
Each incident is separated from other known incidents. All parties voice heard and strategies delivered to individuals as appropriate to needs e.g ASD/ADHD/SEN etc.
We are careful not to refer to person who has experienced bullying as the victim and never suggest solutions lie with them.