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Website URL : http://www.bexley.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=8228

Bexley Anti-Bullying Project

Bexley Anti-Bullying Project is a service which supports children and young people, schools, parents and carers.

The project can provide support in the following ways:

  • To children who are being bullied and to children who bully
  • Advice and support to parents
  • Advice, training and support to schools and other agencies

What is bullying?

The definition of bullying used in Bexley is:

Behaviour by an individual or group usually repeated over time, that intentionally hurts another individual or group either physically, emotionally or mentally.

This includes:

Bullying is an abuse of power that results in distress and pain (physical, mental or emotional) to the victim. It is usually part of a pattern of behaviour rather than an isolated incident. There are three significant factors in bullying:

  1. a power imbalance in favour of the aggressor
  2. a victim who cannot match that power
  3. it is repeated often over a period of time

Young people in Bexley also describe bullying as:

  • Unjustified/unprovoked actions taken against someone
  • Making someone so uncomfortable it becomes unbearable by even just the presence of another
  • Intimidation including anti-social behaviour by a group

Organisations agree bullying can take many forms, it can be:

  1. Emotional/mental - being unfriendly, excluding, tormenting (e.g. hiding books, threatening gestures). Including exclusion of anyone new to a school or group or exclusion of a child because of the action/behaviour of their parent
  2. Physical - pushing, kicking, hitting, punching or any use of violence
  3. Verbal - name-calling, sarcasm, spreading rumours, teasing
  4. Racist - racial taunts, graffiti, gestures
  5. Sexual - unwanted physical (sexual) contact or sexually abusive comments
  6. Homophobic - teasing people for being gay or for being perceived as gay, calling them anti-gay names, even in jest, spreading rumours about people's sexual orientation for the purpose of making fun of them, hitting, intimidation, and isolating people who are believed to be gay.
  7. Cyber - making malicious phone calls, sending malicious letters, e-mails, text messages and e-mailing photographs using mobile phones or online
  8. Faith based - bullying because of religious faith
  9. Disablist - children and young people with a disability can be bullied everywhere they go, including at school, in the park, on the bus, in the street and at out-of-school clubs. They are more likely to be bullied by other children because they are seen as 'different' and as 'easy targets' by bullies. Bullying also happens amongst disabled children
  10. Geographic - children and young people are bullied because of where they live

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