CYP Now - Analysis: Anti-bullying week - Alliance claims strategic success

Four years ago the Anti-Bullying Alliance was set up to tackle bullying in all its forms. With the third annual Anti-Bullying Week under way, Ben Cook examines efforts to combat the problem across the UK and asks whether the message is getting through.

Anti-Bullying Week - which is taking place this week - represents theculmination of a year's worth of planning by the Anti-Bullying Alliance,a group of 65 organisations founded by the NSPCC and the NationalChildren's Bureau in 2002.

However, as well as arranging this week's activities, the alliance hasspent the last 12 months doing regional development work with localauthorities, as well as promoting the Department for Education andSkills' anti-bullying charter for schools. "(The charter) is a set ofcriteria that schools sign up to, such as reviewing their anti-bullyingpolicy on an annual basis," says Julia Collar, the alliance's nationalco-ordinator. "It involves parents, carers, children and other agencies- head teachers sign up to it as well as representatives from thegoverning body and the student body."

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