Rating description:
- Fully met: The policy includes a range of strategies to prevent bullying and typical response strategies.
- Partially met: The policy includes strategies to prevent bullying but not typical response strategies. Or the policy includes response strategies but not prevention strategies.
- Not yet met: The policy does not include a prevention or response strategies.
Tips:
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There is no one-size fits all approach to preventing and responding to bullying. So one response appropriate for one person/group won't be the same for the next, which is why it's important to have a range of responses and prevention strategies available for you.
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Agree as a school community on how you can best respond to bullying incidents. Ultimately you all agree that you want the bullying to stop so how can you make sure that happens. Think about the different factors that might fuel bullying behaviour. How can you make sure that the pupil/s displaying bullying behaviour stop – and change in the long term. What additional support might those that have experienced bullying, and those that have bullied need? Remember bullying can have a significant impact on mental health so the goal must always be to nip it in the bud and to make sure the right support is in place.
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Some resources which might help:
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ABA website sections on preventing and on responding to bullying
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ABA free CPD online training modules 4) preventing 5) responding
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Department for Education: The use and effectiveness of anti-bullying strategies in schools
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Resources and examples:
You can see tools and case studies in the attachments section below.
All Together Schools have said:
These are constantly reiterated to pupils through circle time, peer mediators, school council drop ins, anti bullying week assemblies etc.
The policy has a complete section on prevention, including broad preventative strategies such as the importance of recognising that preventing bullying is everyone's responsibility, that all staff are encouraged to build rapport with students so that they feel valued and able to share if if they are being bullied. It also includes specific details of strategies in place to prevent bullying, such as the anti-bullying ambassadors and their work, having anti-bullying focus weeks, having Diversity ambassadors and a PRIDE group to create better awareness for students about difference. The policy also includes how bullying is to be reported in the academy, by students and parents both in and out of the academy.