Understanding bullying and identifying what works in preventing such behaviours is important in bringing about effective change for children and young people. This course will help you to promote and establish safe, caring and supportive environments where bullying behaviours are unacceptable and establish a culture where bullying is not tolerated.

Bullying has been headline news for many years, and is widely recognised as an issue that has an impact on individual’s health and wellbeing. A recent survey from Ditch the Label suggests that 1-in-2 have experienced bullying, with 1-in-10 having been bullied within the past week.

Improving our understanding of bullying will help those who work with children and young people to bring about change. Everybody can make a difference in reducing the effect of bullying, but we must have a clear definition, understand how bullying works and who is involved, so we can put in place effective strategies to reduce incidents.

This course will help you identify, recognise and respond to bullying behaviours. Enabling participants to demonstrate an understanding of how to build inclusive practice. Using tools to assess, analyse and evaluate practice and examining a range of strategies available to help prevent and intervene effectively. This course will help you build an effective sustainable strategy to prevent and intervene effectively when bullying happens.

COURSE AIM:

This course will enable participants to understand, identify, apply strategies, analyse and evaluate practice around the principles of bullying.

LEARNING OUTCOMES:

By the end of this course staff will have enhanced skills, and knowledge and feel more confident in the following areas:

1. Be able to recognise bullying behaviour.
2. Be aware of the impact of bullying.
3. Have an understanding of their roles and responsibilities with regard to responding and recording incidents of bullying behaviour.
4. Have an awareness of legislation, policies, procedures and guidance relating to the bullying.
5. Gain an understanding of a range of preventative and intervention strategies available.

ORGANISATIONAL BENEFITS:

Making sure your organisation has policies and procedures in place for antibullying and enabling staff and volunteers to know what to do if they have concerns or observe bullying behaviour.