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Staff training
It is good practice for a local
authority to offer a universal training programme for all
staff that work with children and young people (teaching and
non-teaching) in anti-bullying work. Training programmes
could cover topics such as:
- developing an effective anti-bullying policy
- whole school approaches to preventing bullying
- implementing anti-bullying strategies (e.g. circle time)
- working with children and young people (e.g. peer
mentoring)
- types of bullying (e.g. physical, emotional, verbal, sexual,
cyber-related)
- bullying and discrimination (e.g. homophobic bullying)
- Using the wider curriculum to tackle bullying.
For specific case studies of staff training programmes for
schools visit the Work in Schools section
of the toolkit.