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Bullying UK helps a wide range of parents, pupils, teachers and youth organisations including:
Young People
- Young people who are suicidal now or have been in the past. We are contacted by up to four suicidal pupils a day. Others are self harming
- Pupils who don't know where to turn for help who have already tried in vain to get teachers to stop the bullying
- Pupils subjected to violence at school
- Pupils taunted and called names
- Young people suffering hi-tech bullying like text abuse and happy slapping, having abuse posted about them on the internet
- Young people who have no friends and are being excluded from friendships by bullies
- Pupils who have complained to the school but the bullying continues
- Young people suffering health problems such as stress and anxiety and bedwetting as a result of bullying
- Young people receiving psychiatric and psychological care as a result of bullyingPupils who are not at school because their parents have removed them after bullying
- Pupils who are unable to face going to school because of bullying and who are either staying at home with their parents' permission or who are truanting
- Young people being bullied in the community in the holidays and who are afraid to go about their normal lives
- Young people being bullied due to medical conditions like cerebral palsy, deafness, sight problems, Asperger's syndrome, diabetes, eczema
- Young people who initially present as having bullying problems but who later reveal sex abuse or ill treatment
- Young people who are involved with social services
Parents
- Parents who do not know where to turn for help
- Parents whose letters and phone calls to schools have been ignored
- Parents who have been through the whole complaints system, headteacher, governors, LEA and Secretary of State but bullying is still continuing
- Parents whose requests for information from the school are denied
- Parents whose requests for access to school records are illegally withheld
- Parents who by lack of confidence and/or education are unable to write letters to the school themselves and who need help to do so
- Parents who by reason of not having English as a first language are unable to help their children in the same way as other parents
- Parents who do not have access to information from government sources like the DCSF because they do not know where to look for it
- Parents who have been told their child has behavioural problems and have not been given adequate information about SEN procedures
- Parents who have removed children due to bullying at school and who want to teach them at home but lack information on how to do so
- Parents who have removed children due to bullying at school and who are finding difficulty in getting them into another school and need advice on appeal procedures
- Parents who have children who are school phobic due to bullying
- Parents who have been involved with the police after school disputes have got out of hand
- Parents whose children have been bullying other children
- Parents who are being prosecuted because their children have not been attending school
Teachers, schools and youth organisations
- Teachers and LSAs seeking help with work in class or with individual children who are being bullied
- School governors and head teachers revamping bullying policies
- Youth organisations
- Schools needing leaflets and other anti-bullying resources like posters
- After-school clubs
- Sports clubs
- Police forces and health professionals
For help on a bullying issue email Bullying UK
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