Anti-bullying –
in the community and on-line
Karin Hutchinson, Anti-bullying Adviser
Carole Bennett, Senior Adviser ICT
Anti-bullying - a good news story
TellUs 2009 survey of young people showed that Hertfordshire
schools had the lowest levels of bullying in the East of England
Region and second lowest among statistical neighbours.
Have you been bullied at school?
Herts
In the last year
25%
In the last 6 months
9%
In the last 4 weeks
14%
National
26%
9%
18%
Stat Neigh
24%
10%
17%
Ofsted judgements
In the 2009/10 Ofsted inspections, 94% of
Hertfordshire schools (91% national) received a
judgement of good or outstanding for “the extent
to which children feel safe”.
Outstanding
Good
Satisfactory
Inadequate
Herts
34%
60%
7%
National
29%
62%
8%
0.2%
Hertfordshire schools data
• Hertfordshire collects data from schools on the number,
method and focus of bullying incidents
• Following falling trends year on year, rates are now
remaining fairly static, for example:
Aut 09
Aut 10
Bullying rate per reporting primary
Bullying rate per reporting secondary
Racist incident rate per reporting primary
Racist incident rate per reporting secondary
0.6
9.08
0.74
2.34
0.64
9.05
0.5
2.05
Health Related Behaviour Questionnaire
(HRBQ) 2010
12,500 pupils from 109 primary schools and 34 secondary schools:
• 54% of primary pupils said they had not been bullied in school in the last
year compared with 50% in 2008.
• 56% of secondary pupils said they had not been bullied in school in the last
year, compared to 54% in 2008.
• 82% of primary pupils said they had not been bullied somewhere else
(including on their journey to and from school) in the last year,
compared with 72% in 2008.
• 86% of secondary pupils said they had not been bullied somewhere
else (including on their journey to and from school) in the last year,
compared with 73% in 2008.
• 45% of Hertfordshire pupils said they had been bullied in school compared
with 46% nationally and 50% among statistical neighbours.
• 19% of Hertfordshire pupils said they had been bullied when not at
school, compared to 21% nationally and 22% among statistical
neighbours.
CYPP Priority 3 2011/12
• managing and resolving individual complex bullying and racist
incident cases with parents and families
• whole school approaches for parent partnership work on antibullying
• monitoring and targeting increasing forms of bullying (e.g. cyberbullying)
• preparing for the new Ofsted framework
• implementing updated DfE guidance on anti bullying
• maintaining and developing pupil voice in anti-bullying policy and
practice
National context
• Revised guidance on bullying placing particular
emphasis on schools
– addressing anti-homophobia and antitransphobia
– using their powers to respond to bullying in
the community
• Increased attention in the revised Ofsted
framework on bullying within the context of
behaviour
County guidance
“Effective anti-bullying work is not simply about
resolving incidents when they occur, but
requires a whole school strategy and the
engagement of the wider school community.
Schools must take steps to ensure a consistent
approach to all forms of bullying and
discriminatory behaviour within a context which
promotes positive behaviour through a taught
programme of anti-bullying skills and
understanding.”
County guidance
“The effect of behaviour on the recipient – not
just the intention of the perpetrator – is
significant in deciding whether to treat an
incident as bullying. Single incidents of hurtful
behaviour may still leave the targeted pupil
fearful of repetition and should always be
addressed. This is particularly relevant to
cyberbullying, when a single incident may have
an ongoing impact.”
HABI Your Say Surveys
• Pupil voice on key issues, e.g. appearance
focused bullying, transition and confidence in
the system, cyberbullying and homophobia
• Includes questions on bullying in the community
as standard for each dimension
• Autumn 2011 focus will be bullying in the
community
HABI Your Say - cyberbullying
• 89% of the primary and 95% of secondary pupils, said
they either always feel safe online or do most of the time
• 17% of the primary and 21.4% of the secondary pupils
surveyed have had someone deliberately make hurtful
comments about them online
• 12% of the primary and 22% of the secondary pupils
surveyed have been sent a hurtful text message
• In addition 17.7% of the primary and 15.3% of the
secondary pupils had an image/photo of them posted
online, without being asked, which distressed, upset or
embarrassed them
HABI Your Say - cyberbullying
• Primary pupils were most likely to report cyberbullying to a
parent/carer. Secondary pupils preferred to tell a friend.
• For advice about ‘staying safe’ online primary and secondary pupils
would go to a parent/carer first.
• 63.6% of primary pupils and 58.3% of secondary pupils said their
parents know what they do online
(Compared to 77% of parents of children aged 5-11 and 81% of
parents of children aged 12-17 said they know what their
children do online in the national Staying Safe Survey 2009)
• 55% of primary pupils play online games. Of these, 36% had
experienced being embarrassed or bullied during an online game.
62% of primary pupils who play online games said they would
continue to play the game in spite of such an experience.
Anti-bullying community forum
• Brings together LA advisers (anti-bullying, esafety, governance), Police, school transport,
Youth Connexions, children’s homes, voluntary
sector
• Co-ordinates and supports action on bullying in
the community across services
e.g. Reviews incidents dealt with by Herts
transport, shares developments in research,
advises on local issues
“Tackling Bullying in the Community” DfE project to
learn from best practice
(1 of 8 LAs selected)
• Prevention and response to cyberbullying
• Mystery Shopping initiative under development
(Youth Connexions)
• SEND in the community development in Three
Rivers
Police partnership
• Police protocols for working with schools revised and
distributed
• 800 officers trained in ‘Restorative Justice Resolution’ for
dealing with low level incidents.
• A further 18 officers have been trained in holding
Restorative Justice conferences and will lead Restorative
Justice development across the county.
As a result of ‘Restorative Justice Resolution’ over 500
young people have received resolutions rather than
entering the criminal justice system since January 2010.
Themed preventative work
• Homophobia: Education Champions Programme Stonewall Index
(Hertfordshire is in Top 10 LAs)
– An anti-homophobia/transphobia initiative for all Herts schools
– Youth survey of 1397 pupils in 18 Hertfordshire schools
– Support to developing LGBT youth groups and the LGBT Forum
• Sexualised Bullying:
– Pupil workshops provided in 20 secondary schools.
– 2 multi-agency sexualised bullying conferences delivered to 150
professional staff
• Racist bullying: The Show Racism the Red Card programme has
been rolled out to benefit 3,000 primary pupils
Health Related Behaviour Questionnaire
48% use the internet
for access websites,
playing games or
chatting
6% have received
nasty or threatening
text messages
27% spend time
making phone calls
or sending text
messages
5% have sent nasty
of threatening emails
Cyberbullying and eSafety
Hertfordshire Multi-Agency Approach
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Schools ICT team – curriculum and technical
School Governance
Schools HR
Child Protection
Social Care
Hertfordshire Police
Unions
Plus others agencies and partners
(links to legal, press office)
eSafety issues in Hertfordshire
What is happening?
Where, where and how?
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Bullying – 24 hour
Incitement
Sharing of offensive content
Inappropriate contact
Uprisings!
Across all phases
In all year groups
By all of the school community
All of the time
Across Herts, the UK and
beyond
• Using all technologies
‘It's quite simple, say nothing online that you would not have the guts to say to
someones face.’
- Jon, Wales, 13/11/2009 13:06’
The generation gap
Adults
Young people
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Download
Upload
Consume
Create
“Corporate”
Personal
Separate media
Converged media
Static
Interactive
School
• Supervised
• Monitored
• Filtered
• Curriculum
Outside of
school
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And for 9-10 year olds we know:
20% go online in their bedroom
14% access the internet from a mobile phone
21% have their own social network profile
9% say they have been bothered by something online, but only 2% of parents
say something has bothered their child
26% would like their parents to take more interest in their internet use
67% say they ‘know more about the internet’ than their parents
eSafety
Essential School Requirements
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eSafety coordinator
eSafety Acceptable Use Policies
ICT Acceptable Use Agreements for all users
Incident Log
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 Have one computer with low filter settings in an adult area
 eSafety embedded throughout the school
 Pupils confident and know how to ‘stay safe’
 The whole school community regularly informed about eSafety and support
the Safeguarding agenda
 74% of Hertfordshire pupils reported having been taught about eSafety and
sensible online behaviour at school
ICT Acceptable Use Policies with User
Agreements
Working
with the
Unions
Keeping schools up-to-date
 Bulletin
 Termly newsletter
 Twitter
 Youtube
 Hertfordshire Grid for Learning
 Focus days – SID, conferences
www.thegrid.org.uk