Anti-Bullying

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.