Schools need to do much more to tackle bullying, according to a new report from the University of Central Lancashire.
In a survey of 2,000 eight- to 13-year-old children in Blackpool, Dr Mike Eslea of the university's psychology department found that 43 per cent of boys and 46 per cent of girls had been bullied at school. Bullies were mostly boys and four per cent of pupils were both bullies and victims of bullying. Almost one in 10 were victims of bullying several times a week.
Eslea says schools should take a three-pronged approach to tackling the problem by increasing the effort required to be a bully, increasing the risk of being a bully by raising penalties and by ensuring staff are more vigilant, and removing the rewards of being a bully.
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