Project
Primary Bullying Intervention Training (BIT)
Funding
£264,170 over two years from March 2013 from the Department for Education's National Prospectus grant programme.
Background
Bullying accounts for one quarter of all calls to ChildLine by under-11s, making it the top issue for primary school-aged callers, according to this year's ChildLine Review.
In 2011, anti-bullying charity Kidscape was awarded a DfE grant for its Bullying Intervention Training (BIT) programme, a two-year national project equipping staff and young people in secondary schools and youth organisations with skills and strategies to prevent bullying.
Participants highlighted the need for earlier intervention, so the charity developed a similar programme for primary schools.
Action
The charity invited all primaries in nine London boroughs to take part in the programme, resulting in 211 schools in Southwark, Newham, Lambeth, Greenwich, Hackney, Haringey, Islington, Tower Hamlets and Waltham Forest registering – nearly half of all primaries in these boroughs.
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