Top Tips for Supporting Children Who Are Experiencing Bullying

Bob Basley
Director of Anti-Bullying Quality Mark-UK

Parent Guide

15 min

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This free guide provides some useful strategies for healthy conversations to help support a child who is experiencing bullying.

Bullying has long been a pervasive issue in schools – and, being realistic, it’s regrettably a problem which is always likely to exist to a certain extent. There are still plenty of steps we can take as trusted adults, however, to lend support, comfort and reassurance to children who are going through this deeply upsetting experience.

Such a highly emotive topic can be a difficult one to talk about with children – but honest, open communication nevertheless remains vital to young victims’ wellbeing. It’s important to be aware, then, of effective ways to broach and explore the subject. Our #WakeUpWednesday guide has expert advice on effective ways to support children who are being bullied.

Bob Basley

Bob Basley is the director of Anti-Bullying Quality Mark-UK, an organisation which challenges and supports schools to develop sustainable whole-school approaches to the prevention of bullying.

These approaches include working with parents and carers to ensure that they know what steps to take if their child experiences bullying, as well as exploring how school can work more closely with families to stop these behaviours from continuing.

More than 80 schools in England and Wales schools currently hold the quality mark.