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Bullying

.Child-on-Child abuse occurs when a young person is exploited, bullied and/or harmed by their peers who are the same or of a similar age. Everyone directly involved with child-on-child abuse is under the age of 18.

Bullying and child-on-child abuse might include:

Targeted, verbal, physical, psychological, face-to-face harm and/or online bullying
Sexual violence and sexual harassment, including upskirting
Consensual and non-consensual sharing of nudes/semi-nudes (sexting)
Initiation (sometimes referred to as ‘hazing’) type violence and rituals/gang activity
Abuse within intimate partner relationships (including teenage relationship abuse).

Bullying

The Department of Education defines bullying as:

'Behaviour by an individual or group, repeated over time, that intentionally hurts another individual or group either physically or emotionally'.

Bullying is never acceptable and takes many forms. It can be:

Targeted

Aimed at specific groups of people and is homophobic, racial, disablist, gender related

Face to Face

Physical – kicking, hitting, pushing, damaging/stealing property
Verbal – name-calling, teasing, insulting, intimidation
Psychological – spreading rumours, isolating, mimicking, manipulative, playing jokes to embarrass or humiliate

Happens in Cyberspace

Texting unpleasant messages, sending unpleasant photos, and posting unpleasant messages on social networking sites

More information on Cyberbullying can be found on our Online Safety page.

LGBTQ+ Bullying

School can be challenging for any pupil, but many LGBTQ+ young people face an alarming amount of bullying and harassment. Homophobic and biphobic bullying is where people are discriminated against and treated unfairly by other people because they are lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans or questioning or perceived to be. People who are not lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans or questioning can also experience homophobic and biphobic bullying if someone thinks that they are.

Transphobic bullying is where people are discriminated against and treated unfairly by other people because their gender identity doesn’t align with the sex they were assigned at birth or perhaps because they do not conform to stereotyped gender roles or ‘norms’.

(The above definition was taken from the LGBT Foundation)

We take any allegation of bullying very seriously; you can find our Anti-Bullying Policy below.

Anti-Bullying Policy