STOP BULLYING NOW!!

The facts about bullying!

• 38% of young people have been affected by cyber-bullying.
• 30,439 children called ChildLine in 2010/11 about bullying.
• 38% of disabled children worried about being bullied.
• Almost half (46%) of children and young people say they have been bullied at school at some point in their lives.
• 18% of children and young people who worried about bullying said they would not talk to their parents about it.
• 30,439 children called ChildLine in 2010/11 (11% of calls) about bullying.
• Between 1 April 2010 to 31 March 2011 ChildLine carried out 30,439 counselling interactions with a primary concern of bullying. This represents 11% of the total counselling interactions undertaken during that period.
• Bullying was the main reason that boys called ChildLine.
• Two thirds (65%) of lesbian, gay and bisexual young people have experienced homophobic bullying at school.Between 8% and 34% of children and young people in the UK have been cyberbullied, and girls are twice as likely to experience persistent cyberbullying than boys.
• 38% of young people have been affected by cyber-bullying, with abusive emails (26%) and text messages (24%) being the most common methods.
• 28% of children did not tell anyone about the abuse.
• Each year 10-14 youth suicides are directly attributed to bullying (The Home Office)
  Bullied children are 6 times more likely to contemplate suicide than their non-bullied counterparts

A survey of pupils in England estimates that 16,493 young people aged 11-15 (4.4%) are frequently absent from state school or home educated because of bullying.

THE LAW

No matter how bad bullying can seem, many incidents of bullying are not actually crimes, and therefore might not be a matter for the police. The best people to deal with them are parents, teachers or other responsible adults.
But some types of bullying are illegal and should be reported to the police.




violence or assault
theft
harassment and intimidation over a period of time including calling someone names or threatening them, making abusive phone calls, and sending abusive emails or text messages (one incident is not normally enough to get a conviction) anything involving hate crimes .

                The poem featured in the video was written/performed by Yousef Erakat.