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Research — 19 Jan 2024

SEND and Bullying - How are young people with SEND getting on?

The SEND Futures Discovery Phase study is a two-wave feasibility study carried out by the National Centre for Social Research (NatCen), in collaboration with the National Children’s Bureau (NCB) on behalf of the Department for Education.

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Research — 16 Jan 2024

Pupil Voice: Are schools doing enough to tackle bullying?

During last year’s Anti-Bullying Week: Make a Noise, VotesForSchools conducted a vote with 51,976 young people in the UK on whether their schools do enough to deal with bullying.

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News & opinion — 11 Dec 2023

Our 12 'Yays' of Christmas for 2023

According to our Zoom team Christmas quiz, there are 12 days of Christmas that start on Christmas day. We’ve come up with 12 things that we are proud of achieving as a team in 2023, our Twelve ‘Yays’ of Christmas ...

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News & opinion — 8 Dec 2023

Current vacancy: Project Assistant

Closing date 08.00am, Tuesday 23rd January 2024

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News & opinion — 15 Nov 2023

Anti-Bullying Week 2023 School Staff Award Winners

For Anti-Bullying Week 2023 we have once again held our School Staff Award, where pupils can nominate teachers and school staff in England, Wales and Northern Ireland that have gone above and beyond the call of duty to prevent and respond to bullying and to raise awareness of bullying in school.

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News & opinion — 12 Nov 2023

Bullying or banter? It’s time to speak-up and ‘make a noise’ if someone crosses the line

Media release: Embargoed until: 00:01am Monday 13th November 2023

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News & opinion — 31 Oct 2023

Radnor FAM and the Anti-Bullying Alliance reunite to tackle bullying in UK schools

Radnor FAM, the UK’s leading approved brand in schools, has renewed its close partnership with The Anti-Bullying Alliance for the third successive year to help make a significant impact on bullying in UK schools.

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Research

The welfare (wellbeing) of children and young people in England – Recent Anti-bullying findings.

The Department for Education recently released a research report in February 2023, titled “State of the nation 2022: children and young people’s wellbeing”. This research centres around the impact COVID has had on the wellbeing of children and young people over the past year after schools and colleges have had to return to full time face to face teaching as well as formal examinations.

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News & opinion — 24 Oct 2023

Our key anti-bullying 'asks' of political parties for their manifestos

With a general election coming up in 2024, below you'll see our key asks we have of political parties considering the content of their manifestos. It includes the key policy changes we believe need to be applied to help enable us to prevent and improve how we respond to childhood bullying.

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Policy — 23 Oct 2023

We need your help: Email your MP!

This Anti-Bullying Week we want to Make A Noise to our MPs about bullying! Please help us by filling in our short form to contact your MP and share the action with your friends and family.

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Education — 10 Oct 2023

Resources for schools re events in Israel and Palestine

Solutions Not Sides are providing resources for schools to help in discussing the ongoing events in Israel and Palestine with young people.

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News & opinion — 9 Oct 2023

Keeping Children Safe in Education 2023: Update and Bullying

The statutory guidance for schools and colleges - Keeping Children Safe in Education 2023 - has been updated and came come into force on September 1st 2023.

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