This section is designed to improve understanding of what constitutes racist and faith targeted bullying, supporting schools and others to take appropriate action to prevent and respond accordingly.
The relationship between racist incidents and racist bullying
All incidents of racist bullying in schools constitute a racist incident. However not all racist incidents would constitute racist bullying. To determine if racist incident/s are bullying, it is important to have a shared whole-school understanding of what bullying is.
Read the Anti-Bullying Alliance's definition of bullying here
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