The
National Bullying Survey 2006, carried out by the charity Bullying UK
under its former name of Bullying Online, revealed pupils in UK schools were
suffering extreme misery at the hands of classroom bullies.
And teachers across the UK
said they wanted more training to deal with the problem.
Bullying UK surveyed 8,574 children, parents, teachers and adults in
the first six months of 2006 in the largest ever investigation into school
bullying in the UK. The survey was widely publicised on national TV, radio and
in newspapers as well as in young people's magazines and on youth, charity,
police and council websites.
Scandalous situation
"We reply to thousands of emails a year so we knew the
problem was a big one, but even so we were shocked by what we found out," said
director Liz Carnell. "This is a scandalous situation and it needs tough
measures to sort it out.
"If assaults were happening in the workplace the attackers
would be prosecuted but in many cases the bullies are getting off scot-free
without any punishment at all," she said.
The charity believes there should be urgent research to find out why so
many children are being bullied repeatedly, despite their parents making numerous
complaints to schools.
"There
have never been so many trendy methods of dealing with school bullying but the
results of our survey are shocking and it's time to find out which methods work
and ditch the rest," said Liz Carnell.
"Parents
will be shocked to learn that bullying is big business but that none of the
anti-bullying methods being used in schools have been evaluated in independent
long term trials."
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