Bullying Support
What is Bullying?
Bulling is intentional behaviour that hurts someone else. It includes: name calling, hitting, pushing, spreading rumours, threatening or undermining someone.
It can happen anywhere - at school, at home or online. It is usually repeated over a long period of time and can hurt a child both physically and emotionally.
Types of Bullying:
Bullying can take different forms. It could include:
- physical bullying: hitting, slapping or pushing someone
- verbal bullyign: name calling, gossiping or threatening someone
- non-verbal abuse: hand signs or text messages
- emotional abuse: threatening, intimidating or humiliating someone
- exclusion: ignoring or isolating someone
- undermining: constant criticism or spreading rumours
- controlling or manipulative behaviour
- making silent, hoax or abusive calles
The following types of bullying are also hate crimes:
- racial, sexual, transphobic or homophobic bullying
- bullying someone because they have a disability.
Types of cyberbullying
Cyberbullying can include:
- sending threatening or abusive text messages
- creating and sharing embarrassing images or videos
- trolling - the sending of menacing or upsetting messages on social networks, chat rooms or online games
- excluding children from online games, activities or friendship groups
- shaming someone online
- setting up hate sites or groups about a particular child
- encouraging young people to self-harm
- voting for or against someone in an abusive poll
- creating fake accounts, hijacking or stealing online identities to embarrass a young person or cause trouble using their name
- sending explicit messages, also known as sexting
- pressuring children into sending sexual images or engaging in sexual conversations.
Below are some links to bullying guides for parents