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News & opinion — 14 Feb 2023

Internet Matters’ Recent Anti-Bullying Findings

Internet Matters (ABA Core Members) have recently released two pieces of work of value to the Anti-Bullying sector. This includes the A Whole New World? Toward a Child-Friendly Metaverse report and insights from their November 2022 tracker survey.

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News & opinion — 13 Feb 2023

State of the Nation report into wellbeing of children in England and new guidance on managing attendance in relation to mental health

Last week the government released a research report on the wellbeing of children and young people over the academic year 2021 to 2022. The report included research into bullying and online bullying. The government also released guidance for schools relating to children missing school due to mental health issues.

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News & opinion — 23 Jan 2023

Pupil voice: Do fandoms encourage bullying?

During last year’s Anti-Bullying Week: Reach Out, VotesForSchools conducted a vote with 41,192 young people in the UK on whether fandoms encourage bullying.

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News & opinion — 13 Dec 2022

Our Twelve 'Yays' of Christmas for 2022

We’ve come up with 12 things that we are proud of achieving as a team in 2021, our Twelve ‘Yays’ of Christmas.

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News & opinion — 12 Dec 2022

The Anti-Bullying Alliance at 20 years old!

A blog from our Chair, Claude Knights celebrating our 20th year and sharing what ABA means to her along with messages from our community about what ABA means to them.

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News & opinion — 15 Nov 2022

Award winners for the England Anti-Bullying Week School Staff Award 2022 announced

Each year the Anti-Bullying Alliance coordinates Anti-Bullying Week in schools across England. This is the seventh year we have held an award for school staff who go beyond the call of duty to support children with issues such as bullying, family life, relationships and health.

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News & opinion — 14 Nov 2022

Award winners for the Wales Anti-Bullying Week 2022 School Staff Award announced

This is the second year we have held an award for school staff in Wales in partnership with BulliesOut, for staff who go beyond the call of duty to support children with issues such as bullying, family life, relationships and health.

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News & opinion — 14 Nov 2022

A quarter of children are bullied frequently as anti-bullying campaigners call on adults to set a better example

Media release: Embargoed until: 00:01 on Monday 14th November 2022 Contact: Richard Newson / [email protected] / 07721 097 033

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News & opinion — 7 Nov 2022

Andy Day, star of cbeebies/cbbc and lead singer of ‘Andy and the Odd Socks’ heads out on schools tour in aid of Anti-Bullying Week 2022 for the Anti-Bullying Alliance

Children’s TV Mega Star Andy Day, along with his band The Odd Socks, is patron and long term supporter of the Anti-Bullying Alliance (ABA). Now Andy is setting out on a three-week mini tour of schools up and down the country to promote this year’s Anti-Bullying Week on behalf of ABA and its theme for 2022 ‘Reach Out’.

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News & opinion — 1 Nov 2022

Guest blog from Estyn: We may not tell our teachers, but we want to feel safe to ‘reach out’ to them

Working together with schools and other education providers, Estyn wants to help young people feel safe, to report and to challenge this unacceptable behaviour.

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News & opinion — 31 Aug 2022

The superstars of WWE join forces with the Anti-Bullying Alliance to encourage children to reach out about bullying

The Anti-Bullying Alliance is pleased to be working with World Wrestling Entertainment Ltd. (WWE) superstars, Liv Morgan and Drew McIntyre, to launch a short information video to highlight the serious issue of bullying and encourage children to reach out if they are worried about bullying ahead of Anti-Bullying Week this November and WWE’s first major stadium event from in 30 years, Clash at The Castle, which is coming to Principality Stadium, Cardiff on September 3rd, 2022.

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News & opinion — 14 Jul 2022

Revised behaviour guidance and exclusions guidance released by government

On Wednesday 13th July 2020, the government released their revised Behaviour in Schools Guidance and Suspension and Permanent Exclusion Guidance after consultation earlier in the year. This guidance will come into force in September this year.

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