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NEWS RELEASE

Interviews with young people affected by bullying or a charity spokespersonare available on request. High res images can be downloaded here:

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Young people say cyber bullying is getting worse, new survey shows

New research carried out by the Diana Award Anti-Bullying Ambassador Programmeshows that 81% of young people think that cyber bullying is getting worse. Inaddition, one in four young people report that one of their friends has been bulliedonline or via a mobile phone during the summer holiday.

In recent months, there has been a series of high profile cases of cyber bullying,some of which have sadly had tragic results. In Cyberbullying; how safe do ourchildren feel?, young people express their concerns about cyber bullying, just daysbefore they return to school to continue their education.

The research, commissioned by the Diana Award, surveyed the views of 700 youngpeople aged 8-22 across the UK. Other key findings include:

71% have experienced bullying at their school, college or university 28% would not tell someone if they were being bullied 38% believe their school, college or university doesnt take bullying

seriously 41% say their school, college or university doesnt teach them about online

safety 36% are worried about being bullied at their school, college or university

Alex Holmes, Anti-Bullying Programme Manager said: Many parents will be sendingtheir children to school next week still unaware of the dangers that they face onlineboth at school and in the safety of their own home. This research clearly shows thatmore needs to be done to protect children from cyber bullying. That is something we

all have a responsibility to do.

Tessy Ojo, CEO, Diana Award said: Our research has shown that 71% of youngpeople have experienced bullying. The online and offline should be a safe place forour children, we must continue to educate young people and adults on the dangersand the correct way to behave online and offline. Our Antibullying AmbassadorsProgramme, gives young people the skills and confidence to tackle bullying in theircommunities, both off and online'.

To date, over 5,000 young people volunteer and lead the Diana Award Anti-Bullying

Ambassadors programme in schools throughout England. The Ambassadors makeup a network of young people who share and develop best practices and who have

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received training to help them present bullying prevention initiatives and provide on-going peer support.

For more information on the training programmes visit:www.diana-award.org.uk

Media contact:

Alex Holmes0207 628 7499 ext. 206Alex.holmes@diana-award.org.uk@abcholmes

Notes to editor:

Alex Holmes is the Anti-Bullying Programme Manager at The Diana Award, a charityrunning a national anti-bullying programme for the Department for Education. Watch

this short YouTube video of our work in schools:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZMjfKvyWi0and his own personal bullyingexperience/story:http://youtu.be/TPY6RK_bLbw

More about the Diana Award Anti-Bullying Ambassadors ProgrammeThe Diana Award runs the peer-led Anti-Bullying Ambassadors Programme inschools and communities across England. There are currently 5000 Ambassadorsthat are trained to develop a range of preventative measures to keep their peerssafe, this includes delivering online safety techniques to parents, rewriting schoolsacceptable ICT policy, behaviour management campaigns such as Smile andCompliment Days, drop-in support sessions and anti-bullying patrols around theirplayground.

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