Bullying UK wants to know what YOU think about the way school bullying is dealt with in the UK today and you can join one of three panels to tell us. These panels are open to everyone, we want to hear your views and we'll be posing questions to panel mem...

Bullying UK gets complaints about what happens on and off the sports pitch too. It isn't just other players who are the problem but parents, coaches and team managers can also be guilty of bullying behaviour. Pushy mums and dads Professor Celia Bracken...

You can teach your child at home if you prefer and many parents do so successfully, often with the help of organisations with local support networks like Education Otherwise. Home educating parents are not required to teach the National Curriculum, have...

Generally speaking, teachers do a good job, often under stressful circumstances, so when your child complains they are being bullied by a teacher it's worth considering what might be behind it. Possible reasons for conflict Could your child be misbe...

Dealing with bullying on your own can be very isolating, so here are extracts from some emails which you may find help your own situation. The names and some details have been changed for confidentiality reasons so that neither pupil, school nor family c...

Unfortunately many parents find that bullying continues after they have asked the class teacher, head of year or head teacher to sort it out. Contact the governors After a written complaint to the head, the next step is to contact the chair of governors...

Bullying UK regularly recommends that parents get a copy of their child's school record if bullying is continuing despite complaints. Many state school parents find that they are denied access for a variety of reasons, which is unlawful. Sometimes reque...

In the first instance, at a primary or junior school, see the class teacher and explain your worries in a friendly non-confrontational way. Ask how your child is getting on with others in class and raise any issues of conflict with other children. Ask i...

This is something of a grey area. Sometimes schools act and sometimes they don't. It depends on the school. A High Court case several years ago established that schools were not liable for bullying carried out by pupils outside the school gates but the D...

Finding out that your child is being bullied is a stressful and distressing experience. It's natural for a parent to feel anger, confusion and guilt. Some children are good at hiding their feelings and the first you may know of the problem is when your c...

If your complaints to the head teacher, governors and LEA haven't worked then you can complain to Ed Balls, the Education Minister at the Department for Children, Schools and Families. The DCSF used to be called the DfES and before that the DfEE. The DC...

All UK state schools need to have bullying policies by law, but the type of policy they use is down to the school. Bullying is big business, with a large number of firms selling anti-bullying courses, workbooks and training schemes to schools and LEAs.No...

By the time a pupil is at secondary school he/she will know perfectly well that bullying is wrong. There have been many cases where teenagers have killed themselves due to bullying and no doubt the bullies never thought this would be the consequence of t...

Our good friend, the late Tim Field, and Neil Marr have written an excellent book called Bullycide - Death at Playtime Which explains the circumstances in which a number of bullied pupils have killed themselves. You can find out more about this book at...

Your first reaction might be disbelief that your well-behaved son or daughter is being accused of bullying. You can expect them to deny it. But before you dismiss the thought out of hand, listen to what the school has to say about it. Parents rarely com...

Bullying UK receives thousands of emails a year from young people, many of them feeling very distressed and powerless to put a stop to bullying. Some of them have told us how bullying makes them feel:"She has taken all my friends away and I go home at...

Try to explain that bullying is behaving in a way that upsets someone and that this can affect other children so badly that they don't want to go to school. If the bullying involves physical abuse like hitting or kicking, recall a time when your child wa...

Around 16 children in the UK kill themselves every year due to distress over bullying. Their schools often say they had no idea what was going on. But the bullies know exactly what they've been doing - and so do their friends. It's too late to have regre...

There are lots of places you can find help in your own community to deal with racism and racial discrimination. National links Commission for Racial Equality For Sikh children Black Information Link. Ethnic minority issues Confederation of Indian...

Britain is a multi-racial and multi-faith country and everyone has the right to have their culture and religion respected by others. Nobody has the right to call your child names or to treat them badly because of their colour, race or religion. It's i...

Start keeping a diary of who said what and when, and who witnessed it. If your child is being called names relating to colour or religion or culture then the first step is to write to the head teacher to explain what has been going on and to ask for it t...