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  Safe to Learn: Anti-bullying in schools

  • Ministerial foreword
  • Executive summary
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  • Prevention and response
  • Reporting and recording incidents
  • Staff professional development
  • Prevalence of bullying
  • Specific types of bullying
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Safe to Learn: embedding anti-bullying work in schools

Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) guidance

You can download the following documents as PDFs:

• Safe to Learn — overview
• Safe to Learn — guidance and resources

Guidance

• Ministerial foreword
• Executive summary         

1. Introduction
2. What does the law say schools and local authorities should and can do about bullying?
3. How to create and implement a whole-school anti-bullying policy
4. How can schools prevent and respond to bullying?
5. Reporting and recording incidents of bullying
6. Staff professional development

Resources and references

• Information about the prevalence of bullying
• Further information about specific types of bullying
• Opportunities to promote anti-bullying messages through the curriculum
• Sample anti-bullying information sheet for pupils
• Sample anti-bullying information sheet for parents
• Model letter to parents informing them of their school's complaints procedure
• Satisfaction survey for parents
• Sample anti-bullying information sheet for staff
• Organisations that can offer support

Published: 21 September 2007

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