Should you break your confidentiality if a child says she has taken an overdose of pills because of bullying at school? An advice worker for a bullying charity explains what she did when it happened to her.
Recently we received a series of emails from a young girl in her final year at a primary school in the south of England.
She emailed us from school about various issues. She told us how unhappy she was at her school and how she was being bullied by people in her class who wouldn't speak to her and left her out of activities.
I suggested that she should tell her parents what was happening so that they could take this up with her teacher. The hope was that the teacher could step up supervision to catch the bullies in the act, so that she wouldn't get into trouble for telling tales.
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