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Cyberbullying – awareness and action
Peter Bradley, Director of Services, February 2017
• Anti-bullying charity
• Founded in 1985
• Training for professionals, parents, children and young people
• Workshops for bullied children
• Early interventions in schools
• Information and advice
• Media engagement
What is Kidscape?
DfE Advice and Guidance:
The Children’s Act 1989; 2004
Section 89, Education and Inspections Act 2006
The Equality Act 2010: Equality Duty 2011
DfE: Preventing and tackling bullying: Advice for head teachers, staff and governing bodies 2014; Advice on cyberbullying.
OFSTED Schools Inspection Guidance 2015
Key Points of Reference
PREVENT – “Safe from terrorist and extremist material”
2015
Keeping Children Safe In Education Sept. 2016 – Filters – Peer on Peer
Sexting In Schools and Colleges – UK Council For Child Internet Safety (UKCCIS)
Working Together To Safeguard Children
Key Points of Reference
Bullying is not a specific criminal offence in UK law but there are criminal laws that can apply in terms of harassment or threatening behaviour carried out online.
Forms of cyber bullying could be criminal offences under these UK laws:
Protection from Harassment Act 1997, Communications Act 2003, Malicious Communications Act 1988, Public Order Act 1986, Obscene Publications Act 1959, Computer Misuse Act 1990, Defamation Act 2013. Serious Crime Act 2007 (Hate Crime)
Key Points of Reference
Safeguarding
Cyber-
Bullying Bullying
E-Safety
Bullying is the repetitive,
intentional hurting of one
person or group by another
person or group, where the
relationship involves an
imbalance of power.
What is bullying?
Common forms of bullying
Verbal Name calling and persistent teasing. Mocking
and laughing. Taunting and threatening.
Physical Pushing, shoving, kicking, hitting, pinching and
other forms of violence. Taking or damaging
possessions. Making people do things they
don't want to do.
Common forms of bullying
Emotional Excluding, tormenting, ridiculing, humiliation,
setting people up and spreading rumours.
Cyberbullying Bullying texts or emails. Abuse on social
networking sites. Sharing embarrassing photos
and web based attacks (e.g. hacking or
impersonation).
Cyberbullying is the misuse of digital technologies or communications to bully a person or a group, typically through messages or actions that are threatening and/or intended to cause offence, anxiety or humiliation
Cyberbullying
Abusive comments, rumours, gossip and threats made
using digital communications and/or technologies. This includes
internet 'trolling‘ and shaming.
Sharing pictures, videos or personal information without the
consent of the owner and with the intent to cause harm or
humiliation.
Creating dedicated websites that intend to harm, make fun of
someone or spread malicious rumours.
Forms of cyberbullying
Hacking into someone's email, phone or online profiles to
extract and share personal information, or to send hurtful or
inappropriate content while posing as that person.
Manipulation or pressurising someone to do something they
do not want to do such as sending a sexually explicit image.
Excluding/Rejecting/Ostracising often through the use of
‘like/dislike’ options or exclusion from chat sites.
Forms of cyberbullying
The impact of cyberbullying
• Reluctance to let parents or other family members see what’s on their mobiles, laptops
• Withdrawal from technology
• Become frightened when they receive a call or text message
• Unwillingness to go to school/feel disconnected from community
• Developing physical reactions to stress e.g. headaches, eczema
• Increased signs of depression, self harm indicators
• Begin to bully other people
• Being involved in criminal activity
Signs of cyberbullying
Onlookers and bystanders
Social media is the collective term for online communications
channels dedicated to individuals and communities interacting
with each other. This includes, but is not exclusive to, websites
and apps.
What is social media?
Be the change: unite for a better internet
“the power of image in today’s digital youth culture”
Safer Internet Day 2017
Did you know….
400 million chats are sent on SnapChat
each day
300 million photos are uploaded to Facebook
every day
Did you know….
On Instagram photos showing faces are 38%
more likely to get “likes” than photos without faces
The equivalent of 110 years of live Video is
watched on Periscope every day
• 4 in 5 young people have been inspired
by an online image or video to take
positive action
• But more than 1 in 5 have been bullied
with images or videos online
UK Safer Internet Centre 2017
• 70% have seen images and videos not suitable for their age
• The majority of children (84%) aged 8-17 have shared a photo online, with 1 in 6 doing so in the last hour
UK Safer Internet Centre 2017
One in four had used Snapchat
One in three had used YouTube
One in three had used Facebook
One in five had used Instagram
8-17 year olds were asked what they had done in the last hour:
Source: UK Safer Internet Centre 2017
Primary Bullying Intervention Training (BIT)
Positive Assertive Confidence Skills (PACS)
ZAP anti-bullying and assertiveness workshops
EARA Extremism and Radicalisation Awareness Training
Our current projects
Thank you for listening!
More information and advice
about bullying and e-safety can
be found on our website at:
www.kidscape.org.uk
KidscapeCharity
@Kidscape