The toolkit aims to help parents to understand their children’s rights and the action they can take if bullying is taking place.
It includes section outlining what is and isn’t bullying and parents and carers might know if their child is being bullied.
It offers practical guidance on how to advocate for your child, covering working with schools, including an outline of schools’ responsibilities in this area, and understanding legal protections.
The toolkit also offers advice on what to do if parents and carers believe their child is being bullied but their child has not said anything.
And there is guidance on how to respond if their child is bullying others.
Much of the toolkit focuses on working with children to develop their response to situations and incidents, but there is also advice for parents on how to constructively engage with their child’s school.
The Anti-Bullying Alliance is a national charity working to tackle bullying of children and young people. It runs the annual Anti-Bullying Week in the autumn and also offers free CPD-certified anti-bullying online training for anyone that works with children and young people. Among the online CPD available for schools and others working with children and young people are courses on:
- Preventing bullying
- Responding to bullying
- Cyberbullying (online bullying)
- Bullying and difference
- Bullying and SEN/disability
- Young carers and bullying
- Looked after children and bullying
- Sexual and sexist Bullying
- Mental health and bullying
- Preventing and responding to appearance targeted bullying
- Banter or bullying? Navigating the line of acceptability
The charity also offers advice for schools on anti-bullying policies, anti-bullying in the curriculum among other areas.
- Access the new parent/carer toolkit via https://anti-bullyingalliance.org.uk/aba-our-work/news-opinion/launching-our-updated-bullying-information-toolkit-parents-and-carers
- For general information and support for schools, visit https://anti-bullyingalliance.org.uk/tools-information/all-about-bullying/whole-school-and-setting-approach
- For information on the online CPD courses, visit https://anti-bullyingalliance.org.uk/tools-information/free-cpd-online-training