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Creating a strategy group
Think about the key people in your area who can assist with the
design and implementation of strategies to prevent
and respond to bullying, both in schools and the wider
community.
Here are some suggestions for staff that you may wish to
include:
- Anti-Bullying Lead / Anti-Bullying Co-ordinator
- Children’s Services e.g. behaviour support /education welfare /
educational psychology / family support / parent partnership
- PSHE and Citizenship Consultants
- Safer Schools Partnership Officer
- Safeguarding Officer (Local Safeguarding Children Board)
- Diversity / Equalities Officer (s)
- Disability Officer (s)
- Police / Youth Offending Team
- Youth Service
- Health
- Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services
- School Headteachers
- Trade Unions / Professional Associations
- Voluntary Agencies with high profile in anti-bullying work
- Housing
- Educational Psychology Service
- Transport providers
- Looked after children team
- Play and leisure managers
What are the strategy group’s responsibilities?
The strategy group will
be responsible for
- Auditing existing anti-bullying practice across the local
authority area
- Developing and reviewing anti-bullying
strategy establishing the local priorities
- Developing an action plan for an
agreed time period
- Producing an annual report relating to the action plan
- Developing, reviewing and disseminating the anti-bullying
policy
- Developing, reviewing and disseminating anti-bullying guidance
for schools and other organisations working with children and young
people
- Commissioning and developing anti-bullying support services,
anti-bullying initiatives and resources, including referral
services for children and the parents of children who are effected
by bullying
- Designing a Continuing Professional Development (CPD) /
training programme for all relevant staff in preventing and
responding to bullying
- Embedding anti-bullying work in schools and the wider
community
Promoting and supporting (including recommending funding
sources) for the anti-bullying work of voluntary and community
agencies
- Collecting data to measure impact of anti-bullying
strategies