PROJECT
KiVa Anti-bullying Programme
PURPOSE
To prevent and reduce bullying in schools
FUNDING
Typically between £600 and £1,000 for initial training and resources, funded by schools, grants or local authorities. There is then an annual cost of around £2.80 per pupil, including licence fees
BACKGROUND
KiVa, meaning "nice" and an acronym for "against bullying" in Finnish, is a school-based anti-bullying programme for seven- to 15-year-olds developed by the University of Turku and running in more than 90 per cent of Finland's comprehensives.
Professor Judy Hutchings, director of Bangor University's Centre for Evidence Based Early Intervention (CEBEI) heard a presentation by KiVa's founder Professor Christina Salmivalli at a conference in 2011. She advocated the scheme at a Welsh Government meeting of school improvement officers, leading to its inclusion on a list of school programmes eligible for government funding.
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