Anti-bullying – in the community and on-line

1. Anti-bullying – in the community and on-line Karin Hutchinson, Anti-bullying Adviser Carole Bennett, Senior Adviser ICT

2. Anti-bullying - a good news story TellUs 2009 survey of young people showed that Hertfordshire schools had the lowest levels of bullying in the East of England Region and second lowest among statistical neighbours. Have you been bullied at school?                            Herts         National          Stat Neigh In the last year         25%             26%                 24% In the last 6 months        9%               9%                 10%    In the last 4 weeks                    14%             18%                 17%

3. Ofsted judgements In the 2009/10 Ofsted inspections, 94% of Hertfordshire schools (91% national) received a judgement of good or outstanding for “the extent to which children feel safe”.  Herts National Outstanding 34% 29% Good 60% 62% Satisfactory 7% 8% Inadequate 0.2%

4. Hertfordshire schools data • Hertfordshire collects data from schools on the number, method and focus of bullying incidents • Following falling trends year on year, rates are now remaining fairly static, for example: Aut 09 Aut 10 Bullying rate per reporting primary 0.6 0.64 Bullying rate per reporting secondary 9.08 9.05 Racist incident rate per reporting primary 0.74 0.5 Racist incident rate per reporting secondary 2.34 2.05

5. Health Related Behaviour Questionnaire (HRBQ) 2010 12,500 pupils from 109 primary schools and 34 secondary schools: • 54% of primary pupils said they had not been bullied in school in the last year compared with 50% in 2008. • 56% of secondary pupils said they had not been bullied in school in the last year, compared to 54% in 2008. • 82% of primary pupils said they had not been bullied somewhere else (including on their journey to and from school) in the last year, compared with 72% in 2008. • 86% of secondary pupils said they had not been bullied somewhere else (including on their journey to and from school) in the last year, compared with 73% in 2008. • 45% of Hertfordshire pupils said they had been bullied in school compared with 46% nationally and 50% among statistical neighbours. • 19% of Hertfordshire pupils said they had been bullied when not at school, compared to 21% nationally and 22% among statistical neighbours.

6. CYPP Priority 3 2011/12 • managing and resolving individual complex bullying and racist incident cases with parents and families • whole school approaches for parent partnership work on anti-bullying • monitoring and targeting increasing forms of bullying (e.g. cyber-bullying) • preparing for the new Ofsted framework • implementing updated DfE guidance on anti bullying • maintaining and developing pupil voice in anti-bullying policy and practice

7. National context • Revised guidance on bullying placing particular emphasis on schools • addressing anti-homophobia and anti-transphobia • using their powers to respond to bullying in the community • Increased attention in the revised Ofsted framework on bullying within the context of behaviour

8. County guidance “Effective anti-bullying work is not simply about resolving incidents when they occur, but requires a whole school strategy and the engagement of the wider school community. Schools must take steps to ensure a consistent approach to all forms of bullying and discriminatory behaviour within a context which promotes positive behaviour through a taught programme of anti-bullying skills and understanding.”

9. County guidance “The effect of behaviour on the recipient – not just the intention of the perpetrator – is significant in deciding whether to treat an incident as bullying. Single incidents of hurtful behaviour may still leave the targeted pupil fearful of repetition and should always be addressed. This is particularly relevant to cyberbullying, when a single incident may have an ongoing impact.”

10. HABI Your Say Surveys • Pupil voice on key issues, e.g. appearance focused bullying, transition and confidence in the system, cyberbullying and homophobia • Includes questions on bullying in the community as standard for each dimension • Autumn 2011 focus will be bullying in the community

11. HABI Your Say - cyberbullying • 89% of the primary and 95% of secondary pupils, said they either always feel safe online or do most of the time • 17% of the primary and 21.4% of the secondary pupils surveyed have had someone deliberately make hurtful comments about them online • 12% of the primary and 22% of the secondary pupils surveyed have been sent a hurtful text message • In addition 17.7% of the primary and 15.3% of the secondary pupils had an image/photo of them posted online, without being asked, which distressed, upset or embarrassed them

12. HABI Your Say - cyberbullying • Primary pupils were most likely to report cyberbullying to a parent/carer. Secondary pupils preferred to tell a friend. • For advice about ‘staying safe’ online primary and secondary pupils would go to a parent/carer first. • 63.6% of primary pupils and 58.3% of secondary pupils said their parents know what they do online (Compared to 77% of parents of children aged 5-11 and 81% of parents of children aged 12-17 said they know what their children do online in the national Staying Safe Survey 2009) • 55% of primary pupils play online games. Of these, 36% had experienced being embarrassed or bullied during an online game. 62% of primary pupils who play online games said they would continue to play the game in spite of such an experience.

13. Anti-bullying community forum • Brings together LA advisers (anti-bullying, e-safety, governance), Police, school transport, Youth Connexions, children’s homes, voluntary sector • Co-ordinates and supports action on bullying in the community across services e.g. Reviews incidents dealt with by Herts transport, shares developments in research, advises on local issues

14. “Tackling Bullying in the Community”DfE project to learn from best practice(1 of 8 LAs selected) • Prevention and response to cyberbullying • Mystery Shopping initiative under development (Youth Connexions) • SEND in the community development in Three Rivers

15. Police partnership • Police protocols for working with schools revised and distributed • 800 officers trained in ‘Restorative Justice Resolution’ for dealing with low level incidents. • A further 18 officers have been trained in holding Restorative Justice conferences and will lead Restorative Justice development across the county. As a result of ‘Restorative Justice Resolution’ over 500 young people have received resolutions rather than entering the criminal justice system since January 2010.

16. Themed preventative work • Homophobia: Education Champions Programme Stonewall Index (Hertfordshire is in Top 10 LAs) • An anti-homophobia/transphobia initiative for all Herts schools • Youth survey of 1397 pupils in 18 Hertfordshire schools • Support to developing LGBT youth groups and the LGBT Forum • Sexualised Bullying: • Pupil workshops provided in 20 secondary schools. • 2 multi-agency sexualised bullying conferences delivered to 150 professional staff • Racist bullying: The Show Racism the Red Card programme has been rolled out to benefit 3,000 primary pupils

17. Health Related Behaviour Questionnaire 48% use the internet for access websites, playing games or chatting 27% spend time making phone calls or sending text messages 6% have received nasty or threatening text messages 5% have sent nasty of threatening emails

18. Cyberbullying and eSafety

19. Hertfordshire Multi-Agency Approach • Schools ICT team – curriculum and technical • School Governance • Schools HR • Child Protection • Social Care • Hertfordshire Police • Unions • Plus others agencies and partners (links to legal, press office)

20. Where, where and how? Across all phases In all year groups By all of the school community All of the time Across Herts, the UK and beyond Using all technologies What is happening? Bullying – 24 hour Incitement Sharing of offensive content Inappropriate contact Uprisings! eSafety issues in Hertfordshire

21. ‘It's quite simple, say nothing online that you would not have the guts to say to someones face.’ - Jon, Wales, 13/11/2009 13:06’

22. Upload Create Personal Converged media Interactive The generation gap Adults Young people web2 Download Consume “Corporate” Separate media Static

23. Supervised Monitored Filtered Curriculum SchoolOutside of school ? And for 9-10 year olds we know: 20% go online in their bedroom 14% access the internet from a mobile phone 21% have their own social network profile 9% say they have been bothered by something online, but only 2% of parents say something has bothered their child 26% would like their parents to take more interest in their internet use 67% say they ‘know more about the internet’ than their parents

25. eSafety Essential School Requirements • eSafety coordinator • eSafety Acceptable Use Policies • ICT Acceptable Use Agreements for all users • Incident Log * * * * * * * * * • Have one computer with low filter settings in an adult area • eSafety embedded throughout the school • Pupils confident and know how to ‘stay safe’ • The whole school community regularly informed about eSafety and support the Safeguarding agenda • 74% of Hertfordshire pupils reported having been taught about eSafety and sensible online behaviour at school

26. ICT Acceptable Use Policies with User Agreements

28. Working with the Unions

29. Keeping schools up-to-date • Bulletin • Termly newsletter • Twitter • Youtube • Hertfordshire Grid for Learning • Focus days – SID, conferences

30. www.thegrid.org.uk