No one likes
Bullies, it’s a fact. What also is a fact is that there are bullies still out
there and unfortunately there probably always will be. Raising awareness
though of how to deal with bullies and helping bullies understand their
behaviour (and hopefully change it) can only help with reducing the amount of
bullying that’s out there.
At Park
Foster Care we whole-heartedly support the national Anti-Bullying awareness
campaign. Originally the campaign was confined to one week in November but in
2011 the whole of November was dedicated to supporting Anti-Bullying around the
country.
We realise
though that bullying doesn’t just happen one month of the year and the good
work done by organisations such as Bullies Out www.bulliesout.com and Bullying UK www.bullying.co.uk are leading the way to eradicate and combat bullying
behaviour and give support to those being bullied.
We can’t
just leave this to others though and we should all do our part in helping to
educate our youngsters in appropriate behaviour and how to cope with any
bullying they may come across. Many of us just don’t know the right way to
handle situations especially as bullying just isn’t confined to the school
yards now that we have easy access to mobiles and the online world. Cyber
Bullying is a massive problem and the majority of the social media networking sites
do take this seriously with advice and guidance on how to protect yourself and
how stop the bullies contacting you.
As an
independent foster care agency we take this seriously and have appointed one of
our Supervising Social Workers with experience in this area to take up the
mantel as our Anti-Bullying Lead, arranging training and informing our carers
of courses that will help them support the children in their care with any
issues they may come across relating to bullying behaviour.
