Bullying prevention tool

This detailed guide is designed to help schools develop their bullying prevention strategy, using examples of best practice and plenty of supporting materials.

It focuses on four key areas, all of which support a whole-school approach to mental health and wellbeing. These are:

• Understanding what bullying is and isn’t
• Promoting a respectful ethos
• Celebrating that we are all different
• Challenging derogatory and discriminatory language.

The resource emphasises the importance of implementing its learning as part of a whole-school approach to anti-bullying.

It breaks down the different prevention strategies and categorises them into classroom strategies, non-classroom strategies and peer support strategies.

There is a template bullying prevention framework included which can be used to start planning strategies and how to take the work forwards.

Using this resource

This resource is designed for:

• use by mental health leads working with students aged 5 to 19.
• use by staff working in primary schools, secondary schools, colleges (sixth form and FE), special schools.

Learning outcomes

This resource addresses the following learning outcomes:

• Connect different policies and processes (equality & diversity, bullying & harassment, behaviour and safeguarding) to ensure they are working together to support wellbeing.
• Use their knowledge to effectively communicate a positive values-based approach, and to promote openness and understanding to normalise mental health and its fluctuations throughout life.