Following a review of appointments, the alliance decided not to renewthe contract with the South West regional co-ordinator, a role heldjointly by George Robinson and Barbara Maines of Lucky DuckPublishing.
The review concluded that it was not appropriate for anyone publiclyassociated with a single anti-bullying strategy to be a regionalco-ordinator.
Paul Ennals, chief executive of the National Children's Bureau, whichmanages the alliance, said there was no suggestion that Robinson andMaines had exclusively promoted the "no-blame" approach.
But he added: "The role of the alliance is to promote a full range ofstrategies. For this reason we concluded that is it is not appropriatefor any of our regional co-ordinators to have strong public links with asingle anti-bullying approach."
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