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What action can be taken at home and at school to prevent bullying?
There are some general strategies that can be followed which should help those being bullied and also for people who have to deal with bullying such as parents, teachers, and carers.
Be aware of signs of bullying in your child. Quietness, being "withdrawn", not wanting to go to school, etc. are examples of behaviour typical in a bullied child.
Name-calling 'worst form of bullying'.
Name-calling is more devastating for children's self-confidence than physical bullying, a study suggests. Dr Stephen Joseph, a psychologist at Warwick University, found verbal abuse had a large and ongoing impact on children's self-esteem
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Taming the Teen Queen Bee.
Girls can be vicious to one another. Mothers of both victims and perpetrators can ease the sting
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Softly, softly in the classroom.
How does a police in schools scheme work in practice? A pilot project in London is using the police to tackle bullying
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Youngsters targeted by digital bullies.
More than one in every four youngsters have been threatened on their computers or mobile phones, according to a survey
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Risk posed by aggressive pupils.
UK teachers demand schools carry out "risk assessments" of pupils with behavioural problems, to protect other pupils and staff.
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School becomes cash-free to beat bullies.
Edinburgh pupils are to be given swipe cards as a school aims to be a cash-free zone. The plastic cards will enable youngsters to pay bus fares, visit sports centres and buy their lunch. Organisers hope the project will help curb bullying of children for their dinner money
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UK dyslexic man awarded £52,500 (approximately US$75,000) for school 'torment'.
A man who suffered "abominably" at school because no one spotted his dyslexia has been awarded more than £50,000 (approx. $75,000) compensation. Stockport County Court has ruled the Stockport council should take responsibility for 25-year-old Robin Johnson's schooling difficulties. His solicitor said Mr Johnson, from Bramhall, Stockport, was tormented at school by bullies who teased him for his disability
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"UK schools must expel bullies."
A crackdown on violence and yob culture in schools will be launched by ministers next week in an admission that the Government’s softly-softly approach has failed
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UK schools keeping bullies in class because of Government targets.
Headteachers claim pressure from the Government to reduce exclusions has led teachers to keep bullies in class. The allegation from a headteachers' association comes after the suicides of two teenagers who had complained of bullying. But it is warning that schools keeping bullies in lessons could be open to prosecution under the Human Rights Act for allowing pupils to be subjected to degrading treatment
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Bullying victim discusses problem with Blair.
A 14-year-old victim of school bullies says she will advise UK Prime Minister, Tony Blair after he asked her for help in tackling children's issues. Joanne Geldart is campaigning for a children's commissioner and has been discussing the idea with the Prime Minister who is her local MP. She attracted national attention earlier this year when she made public a diary she had kept about her bullying ordeal
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All the Trash That's Fit to Post.
Teasing and telling tales about fellow students is a time-honored tradition. The Web makes it easy, anonymous and, from the principal's perspective, annoying
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UK commissioner needed to protect bullied children.
A bullied schoolgirl is taking her appeal for an English Children's Commissioner to Downing Street. Nearly 50% of children experience bullying at some point and one in 12 suffers sustained attacks, says the NSPCC. Wales already has a Children's Commissioner and Scotland and Northern Ireland are moving ahead with plans for similar posts
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Double exam triumph for bullied eight year old.
A British eight-year-old boy is celebrating double GCSE success just two years after bullies forced him out of school. Dylan Cobb scored Grade B in both maths and information technology following nine months' tuition at Watford's Ryde College. His mother Anita Cobb, 45, said the success came after he was pulled out of his school in Devon where he was being bullied
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Fears 'keep children indoors'
UK children are becoming "couch prisoners", as the fear of being bullied or knocked over by a car stops them playing outside, charities warn
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London gang leaders turn on violence.
Former gang leaders who carry scars from their violent playground battles are being used to try to deter other children from violence. They are promoting a new anti-violence course which has been piloted at three schools in the London borough of Tower Hamlets over the past year. The scheme, called simply the Non-Violence Project, is now being made available to schools across Britain
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Cyber slammed.
Kids are getting arrested for online bullying. It's definitely offensive, but is it against the law? The first indication that the seemingly obscure practice of cyber-bullying might have reached outrageous proportions was an item in the New Yorker titled "The New Bathroom Wall"
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Text message bullies action call.
Scottish education chiefs have been urged to draw up rules limiting the use of mobile phones after reports that some pupils were being bullied via text messages. Children at Stirling High School had mobile phones confiscated after threats of physical violence were sent using the short message service.
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UK Teen actor Jamie Bell bullied because of gay screen kiss in Billy Elliot.
"Some of the younger guys are a bit jealous, threatening to beat me up because I kissed a lad in Billy Elliot. I was kind of taken aback because I was being threatened over something I thought nothing of." - Jamie Bell, quoted in The Star...
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What does a pupil have to do to be excluded?
As the UK government outlines new guidelines on the expulsion of unruly pupils, education editor Ros Taylor explains what will get a child thrown out of school...
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Irish Pop Star Ronan Keating admits he was bullied at school.
"The singer is the latest in a line of stars to admit they were bullied. Westlife's Bryan McFadden, 19, was teased for being fat. And Posh Spice Victoria Beckham, 26, was a recluse because she was nicknamed Acne Face" - The Sun...
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The National Association of Head Teachers said that they were very concerned by such incidents. New figures suggest that as many as one in six teachers have been threatened in some way (either verbally or physically) and as many as one in eight have received abuse from parents.
Teacherline, who commissioned the survey of 500 teachers, extrapolated the figures, which suggest that 85,000 teachers have received threats of some kind...
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