Barry Sheerman, chair of the Education and Skills Select Committee, said that despite the "fantastic amount of activity" during last week's Anti-Bullying Week, the committee had received worrying written evidence of the scale of the problem.
The committee began taking oral evidence for its inquiry into bullying last week. Witnesses stressed the importance of getting the community involved in anti-bullying work, rather than seeing it as purely a school-based problem.
Benet Middleton, director of communications and public affairs at The National Autistic Society, said: "What we're looking for is not so much punishment for bullies - it is constructive preventive work, and that should involve the whole community."
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