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General anti-bullying resources

Be Someone to Tell is a website from Parentline Plus for parents concerned about bullying. The site aims to enable parents who have concerns about bullying both  within and outside school to share experiences with each other. It includes information and commonly asked questions about bullying, case studies, a message board, and links to further support from Parentline Plus and other organisations.

BBClic
Site for young people, featuring help and advice, safe social networking, video sharing, and libraries of tunes made by young people.

Joseph and the Technicolour Dreamcoat
Free teaching resource to encourage secondary school teachers and pupils to explore bullying using Joseph themed lessons.

New Perspectives on Bullying
This book provides a valuable resource for anyone responsible for the emotional health and well-being of children and young people

Look For Loneliness: resource pack for schools
This pack is designed to help children to understand how it feels to be lonely and to be bullied. It was the idea of 10 year-old James Buckley. James spent many playtimes alone and knows how it feels to be lonely. The pack includes large playground signs, stickers, story books and teaching resources.

Say no to bullying: pocket guide for parents
This booklet includes case studies, basic information and advice for parents, checklist and useful contacts. Designed to link to Anti-Bullying Week and the SEAL theme 'say no to bullying'. Available to order (£1 per copy) from Futurelink Publishing who publish a range of well-being and SEAL resources.

Lesson plans, assemblies and resources for monitoring and tackling bullying

Anti-Bullying assembly plans (2004)
These assembly plans, produced for the first Anti-Bullying Week in 2004, were written by Ann Lovelace, author of several well-known assembly guides. The assemblies were developed from ideas suggested by young people in secondary and special schools and are based on the principle of maximum student participation. The materials include a full script and suggestions for props and resources. You can download all six assembly plans and a set of teachers' notes below.
Teachers' notes [PDF 84KB]
Assembly 1 [PDF 52KB]
Assembly 2 [PDF 52KB]
Assembly 3 [PDF 40KB]
Assembly 4 [PDF 49KB]
Assembly 5 [PDF 37KB]
Assembly 6 [PDF 40KB]

Anti-Bullying Charter for schools
Schools can sign up to this DCSF Charter to show their commitment to opposing bullying and evaluate their policies and practices
Bullying: a charter for action

Audit Questionaire

This ABA resource is designed to help schools (and local authorities) survey, report and make informed responses to bullying. It was developed by Peter Smith and the ABA Research team at Goldsmith’s College, London in 2007 and updated in 2010.
ABA audit questionnaire children and young people (Key Stage 2) [Word 2.7MB]
Accompanying guidance notes (Key Stage2) [Word 662KB]
ABA audit questionnaire for children and young people (Key Stage 3 and 4)  [Word 1.1MB]
ABA audit questionnaire for parents & carers [Word 911KB]
Accompanying guidance notes (Key Stage 3/4 and parents/carers)  [Word 663KB]

The following tools are designed for use with children and young people with special educational needs.
What do you think about bullying? Mencap questionnaire [PDF 197KB ]
Mencap questionnaire administrator notes [ Word 69KB]
Case Study: Somerset Total Communication Resource [ PDF 629KB]
Case Study: Somerset Total Communication Questionnaire [Word 114KB]

Anti-bullying videos and schools programmes
A variety of programmes available to watch or download, from the Teachers TV website
Teachers TV anti-bullying resources

Are you talking to me? young people's participation in anti-bullying
This document, written by John Khan, is designed to help professionals effectively involve children and young people in anti-bullying work
Participation guidance [PDF 527KB]

Anti-bullying lesson module [PDF 1.2MB]
This is an excerpt from "Social and Emotional Education", a teaching resource (for use with pupils 12 and over) produced by the Human Values Foundation. The resource, and others from the Foundation, are available from the Human Values Foundation website

Anti-bullying teaching and learning in PSHE Education
This resource, from the PSHE Association outlines the opportunities to address bullying within PSHE Education at Key Stages 1 to 4
PSHE Association anti-bullying resource

Links with the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child
The 20th anniversary of the publication of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) falls during Anti-Bullying Week and will be celebrated worldwide on 20 November. Many of the rights and responsibilities in the convention have a direct bearing on anti-bullying work. Anti-Bullying Week provides a good opportunity to make the link between the UNCRC and the rights of children to access communication systems and to feel safe and confident in the cyberworld.  To mark the occasion, the Children's Rights Alliance for England have produced an anniversary pack for schools which includes a collection of resources for schools, practitioners and young people.

Mencap have produced a children's charter: We Want to be Safe to coincide with the anniversary and Anti-Bullying Week.  The charter, in the form of a downloadable poster, has key messages of how children want professionals to help keep them safe. Children with a learning disability are twice as likely to be bullied as other children, and three times more likely to be abused. Mencap is fighting for the right of children and young people with a learning disability to feel safe. You can download a copy of the charter poster or request a hard copy by email .