Skip to main navigation Skip to main content
Home

Search

  • Donate
  • News
  • Shop
  • About ABA
    • About ABA
    • Our Members
      • Core Members
      • School and College Members
      • Associate Members
    • United Against Bullying (UAB) Programme
    • Our Other Programmes
      • All Different, All Equal Project
      • Anti-Bullying in Wales
      • Gypsy, Roma and Traveller Anti-Bullying Project
      • Racist and Faith Targeted Bullying Group
      • Young Anti-Bullying Alliance (YABA)
      • Our previous programmes
        • All Together: Whole School Programme
        • Learn Equality, Live Equal
    • Our Advisory Group
    • Our Patrons
    • Our Staff Team
    • News & opinion
    • Policy Work
      • ABA Policy Recommendations

    ABA & Our Work

    The Anti-Bullying Alliance is a coalition of organisations and individuals that are united against bullying.

    More
    • About ABA
    • Our Members
    • United Against Bullying (UAB) Programme
    • Our Other Programmes
    • Our Advisory Group
    • Our Patrons
    • Our Staff Team
    • News & opinion
    • Policy Work
    Featured

    Our Patrons

  • Tools & information
    • Free CPD online training
      • Online training FAQ
    • All about bullying
      • A whole-school and setting approach
        • Ten key principles
        • Top tips for teachers
        • Anti-Bullying Policies
        • Exclusions and bullying
        • Home to school transport
        • Peer support strategies
          • What are peer support schemes?
          • Bystanders
          • More peer support tools and resources
            • Change Starts With Us: Creating solutions with young people
            • Examples of peer support schemes
            • Top tips to help you with your peer support scheme
        • The Curriculum
        • What is a whole-school or setting approach?
        • A United Approach
          • Primary School
          • Secondary School Page
      • What is bullying?
        • The ABA definition
        • Baiting
        • Banter
        • Tools about the definition of bullying
        • False friendships
      • At risk groups
        • Racist and faith-targeted bullying
          • Gypsy, Roma & Traveller Targeted Bullying
          • Prevalence
          • Top tips for schools
          • What does the Law say?
        • Looked after children and bullying
          • Bullying and care-experienced young people
          • What can schools and other settings do to support looked after children?
        • SEN & Disability
          • Autism and bullying
          • Deaf children and bullying
          • Disablism in class
          • Do children with SEND experience more bullying?
          • Online bullying and SEN/disability
          • Peer schemes and SEN/disability
          • Teaching assistants and bullying
          • The local offer and bullying
        • Young carers and bullying
          • What can schools and settings do to help young carers?
          • Young carers and bullying
        • Appearance-related bullying
        • Identity-based bullying
        • Homophobic, biphobic and transphobic bullying
      • Bullying and the Law
        • Online bullying and the law
        • Hate crime and bullying
        • Bullying and Ofsted
        • Anti-Bullying Policies
        • What does the law say about bullying?
      • Early years
      • GPs and Health Staff
      • Mental Health
      • Online bullying
        • Teaching about online bullying
        • What is online bullying?
        • Understanding online bullying
          • Online Bullying: Information for parents
          • Online peer support schemes
          • Stop Speak Support Anti-Cyberbullying Day
        • Online bullying and SEN/disability
        • Stop Speak Support - focus on online bullying
          • Stop Speak Support - School Pack
          • What was Stop Speak Support Anti-Cyberbullying Day?
      • Prevalence and Impact
        • Focus on: Bullying
        • Prevalence of bullying
        • Developing bullying surveys or questionnaires
        • Prevalence of online bullying
        • The impact of bullying
        • Change Starts With Us: Anti-Bullying Report
      • Preventing bullying
        • 10 Key Principles
        • Celebrating difference in schools
          • Celebrating difference - top tips
          • Primary School Pack
          • Resources from our members
          • Secondary School Pack
        • Encouraging pupils to 'Choose Respect'
          • Resources from our members
          • Primary School Pack
          • Secondary School Pack
        • Promoting Kindness in Scools
          • BBC Teach Lesson for Anti-Bullying Week 2021
          • Kick around kindness - Premier League classroom resources
          • Primary School Pack
          • Secondary School Pack
          • Ysgolion yng Nghymru / Schools in Wales
            • Pecyn Ysgolion Cynradd / Primary School Pack - Wales
            • Pecyn Ysgolion Uwchradd / Secondary School Pack - Wales
        • SEAL Resources
        • Using books and film to prevent bullying
      • Reporting and recording bullying
        • Reporting and recording bullying
        • Using data to change school culture
        • Recording bullying - effective practice
      • Responding to bullying
        • A social model approach
        • ABA’s 3-step Response to Bullying framework
        • Circle Time
        • Non-sanction based approaches
        • Children who bully
          • How many children bully and what do we know about them?
          • Supporting children who bully others
          • Working with parents and carers of children who are displaying bullying behaviour
        • Restorative practice
          • Restorative practice - dispelling the myths
          • Restorative practice and choosing respect
          • What is restorative practice?
      • Sexual and sexist bullying
        • What is sexual bullying?
        • Investigating and responding to sexual bullying
        • Preventing sexual bullying
      • Working with parents and carers
    • Advice and support
      • If you're being bullied
        • I am being bullied
        • Find help and support
      • Advice for parents
        • Restorative Thinking and Positive Relationships: preventing and managing conflict
        • Sources of information, advice and support
        • My child has been accused of bullying others
        • How can I help my child if they are being bullied?
        • Spotting the signs that my child is being bullied?
        • I'm worried about cyberbullying
      • Making a complaint about bullying
      • Were you bullied as a child? Or are you being bullied at work?
      • Interactive anti-bullying information tool for parents and carers

    Tools & information

    More
    • Free CPD online training
    • All about bullying
    • Advice and support
    Featured

    Free CPD online training

    Featured

    Prevalence and impact of bullying

  • Anti-Bullying Week
    • Anti-Bullying Week: Reach Out
    • Odd Socks Day
      • What is Odd Socks Day?
      • Odd Socks Day School Pack
      • Hold Odd Socks Day in your workplace
      • Andy and the Odd Socks
      • Odd Socks Days gone by...
    • Pledge your support
    • Get involved on social media!
    • Anti-Bullying Week Merchandise
    • Anti-Bullying Weeks gone by...
      • Anti-Bullying Week 2021: One Kind Word
      • Anti-Bullying Week 2020: United Against Bullying
      • Anti-Bullying Week 2019: Change Starts With Us
      • Anti-Bullying Week 2018: Choose Respect
      • Anti-Bullying Week 2017: All Different, All Equal
      • Anti-Bulling Week 2016: Power for Good
      • Anti-Bullying Week 2015: Make a Noise about bullying
      • Anti-Bullying Week 2014: Let's stop bullying for all
      • Anti-Bullying Week 2013: The future is ours: safe, fun and connected
      • Anti-Bullying Week 2012: We're better without bullying

    Anti-Bullying Week

    ABA are official organisers of Anti-Bullying Week and Odd Socks Day. Anti-Bullying Week 2022 will take place from Monday 14th - Friday 18th November with the theme Reach Out.

    More
    • Anti-Bullying Week: Reach Out
    • Odd Socks Day
    • Pledge your support
    • Get involved on social media!
    • Anti-Bullying Week Merchandise
    • Anti-Bullying Weeks gone by...
    Featured

    Odd Socks Day

    Featured

    Pledge your support

  • Get Involved
    • ABA Merchandise
    • Anti-Bullying Email Newsletter
    • Become a Member of ABA
    • Business Partnerships
      • Restorative Thinking
      • Schnell Solutions
      • Sprint Education
    • Donate
    • Fundraise
    • Contact us

    Get Involved

    Our purpose at ABA is to unite against bullying. Please get involved - in any way you can - to support us.

    More
    • ABA Merchandise
    • Anti-Bullying Email Newsletter
    • Become a Member of ABA
    • Business Partnerships
    • Donate
    • Fundraise
    • Contact us
    Featured

    Become a Member of ABA

    Featured

    Donate

About ABA

United against bullying

Image
Woman speaking.

We are a unique coalition of organisations and individuals, working together to achieve our vision to: stop bullying and create safer environments in which children and young people can live, grow, play and learn.

We welcome membership from any organisation or individual that supports this vision and support a free network of thousands of schools and colleges.

The ABA has three main areas of work:

  • Supporting learning and sharing best practice through membership;
  • Raising awareness of bullying through Anti-Bullying Week and other coordinated, shared campaigns;
  • Delivering programme work at a national and local level to help stop bullying and bring lasting change to children's lives;

We provide expertise in relation to all forms of bullying between children and young people. The Anti-Bullying Alliance was established by the NSPCC and the National Children's Bureau in 2002 and is hosted by the National Children's Bureau.

Our objectives

  • To raise the profile of bullying and the effect it has on the lives of children and young people.
  • To create a climate in which everyone agrees that bullying is unacceptable.
  • To make sure that teachers, youth practitioners, parents, carers, children and young people have the skills and knowledge to address bullying effectively.

Our values

Image
Woman with glasses speaking.

To make sure we are united against bullying we have set values that all our members sign up to. The alliance:

  • believes bullying in any form is wrong and should not be tolerated, and that any environment that encourages bullying, or shows indifference to prejudice and discrimination is unacceptable;
  • believes bullying is a behaviour choice and that anyone can be encouraged to change their behaviour;
  • believes all children and young people have intrinsic value and worth and we embrace their uniqueness and autonomy;
  • respects difference and welcome diversity in our children, young people and in society in general, and believe our work should be inclusive of all;
  • believes children and young people should have the right to feel safe, secure and valued, and that creating a safe environment and dealing with bullying is our shared responsibility;
  • believes children and young people should actively participate in decisions that affect them and should be supported in taking responsibility for their choices and subsequent actions;
  • supports a range of positive strategies to deal with bullying and actively challenge the use of humiliation, fear,  ridicule and other similar approaches in an effort to reduce bullying;
  • works within the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (Articles 14 and 28); and
  • believes that people should be treated with respect and courtesy.

We work to achieve our objectives in three key ways:

  • Policy and advocacy work - partnership building, policy development and media work.
  • Building the evidence base for effective practice- encouraging research and evaluation to identify what works; collecting and sharing effective practice; supporting new developments and innovations in line with the evidence.
  • Information sharing - disseminating and sharing information through our membership and developing resources for schools and other organisations that work with children and young people.

Become a member of ABA today!

About ABA

  • About ABA
  • Our Members
  • United Against Bullying (UAB) Programme
  • Our Other Programmes
  • Our Advisory Group
  • Our Patrons
  • Our Staff Team
  • News & opinion
  • Policy Work

Share

  • Share on facebook
  • Tweet this
  • Share linkedin
  • Email
Back to top
Home

Sign up to our newsletter

  • About ABA
    • About ABA
    • Our Members
    • United Against Bullying (UAB) Programme
    • Our Other Programmes
    • Our Advisory Group
    • Our Patrons
    • Our Staff Team
    • News & opinion
    • Policy Work
  • Tools & information
    • Free CPD online training
    • All about bullying
    • Advice and support
  • Anti-Bullying Week
    • Anti-Bullying Week: Reach Out
    • Odd Socks Day
    • Pledge your support
    • Get involved on social media!
    • Anti-Bullying Week Merchandise
    • Anti-Bullying Weeks gone by...
  • Get Involved
    • ABA Merchandise
    • Anti-Bullying Email Newsletter
    • Become a Member of ABA
    • Business Partnerships
    • Donate
    • Fundraise
    • Contact us

Meet the NCB family : United for better childhood

  • NCB Home

  • CDC Home

  • CBN Home

  • ABA Home

  • SWP Home

© National Children's Bureau 2022

  • linkedin
  • facebook
  • twitter
  • youtube
  • Accessibility
  • Privacy statement
  • Terms and conditions
  • Cookie Policy
  • Suppliers area
  • Contact us

Registered charity No. 258825. Registered in England and Wales No. 952717.

Registered office: National Children’s Bureau, 23 Mentmore Terrace, Hackney, London E8 3PN. A Company Limited by Guarantee.

Site by Effusion