Parental response crucial as ‘it’s about trying to work out a strategy that works for both the parent and the child’
“What schools find is there’s so much more pushback now. The level of proof we need is higher and that makes things difficult as well, because there’s a little bit of trepidation about how we go into these conversations with parents.
When it comes to anti-bullying policies, Petrie says “every year we should be casting our eye over the things we’re doing to prevent it happening in the first place … most of the success for us is that you’re not reacting in a crisis but continuing to put the work into having students who are upstanders, not bystanders. That they know what that means.
In the absence of teenagers confiding in their parents, the signs of bullying can be difficult to spot, Noctor says. “If they’re very careful around not wanting you to see their phone. If they want to be dropped off away from the school — they don’t want you to observe them with their friends. Some of that’s normal, but they may want to keep you in the dark about what’s going on.
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