New research by the Anti-Bullying Alliance shows that despite the pandemic leading to school closures a third of children in England said that they have been victims during the last six months.
A poll of 2,000 11- to 16-year-olds, published to mark Anti-Bullying Week, which runs from 16 to 21 November, found that one in five children said they were on the receiving end of bullying behaviour once per week or more.
However, the poll suggests that Covid-19 has affected how bullying takes place, with rising numbers of children reporting incidents online or in their communities compared to a similar survey last year, and fewer children saying they had been bullied in school.
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