What's New
LGBT History Month Starts 1 February 2012:
Book Readings in Herts: 21 February 2012 New
 It takes
two...
- Stella Duffy, author of ‘Theodora’ and ‘The Room of Lost Things’
- Paul Burston, literary critic
for Time Out and author of ‘The Gay Divorcee’
Will be at
Watford Central Library
Tuesday 21st February
7.15pm
Under 16’s free of charge
The Big March 2012 – UN Campaign for Children’s Rights to be Safe New
The Big March is world’s first virtual march to help to promote the right of every child to be safe. All you need to do is visit:
On 31st January 2012 there will be a virtual march with many thousands of virtual marchers crossing the websites of some of the world’s biggest companies.
This international campaign will call on the United Nations to enshrine explicitly in the UN Convention for the Rights of the Child to be safe from bullying, violence and fear of violence by their peers as well as abuse from adults.
Karin Hutchinson, Anti-Bullying Adviser
Ann Layzell, eSafety Adviser
DFE Guidance New
Latest guidance includes:
- The new Ofsted evaluation and schedule from January 2012
- More...
Notification of Termination of the Termly Return:
Bullying & Racist Incident Data and Consultation New
The statutory requirement for the local authority to collect racist incident data from schools has ceased. We have, therefore, consulted with the relevant Hertfordshire headteacher forum about their preferences in moving forward.
We are considering developing a voluntary annual data collection. This would be available in the summer term 2012. It is anticipated it would cover the protected characteristics of the public sector equalities duties. We are very keen to hear the views and suggestions of headteachers and/or anti-bullying co-ordinators.
Please send your thoughts and suggestions before 31 March 2012. More...
Preventing & Tackling Bullying: Advice for school leaders, staff and governing bodies
There are a number of statutory obligations on schools with regard to behaviour which establish clear responsibilities to respond to bullying. Every school must have measures to encourage good behaviour and prevent all forms of bullying amongst pupils.
This document replaces previous advice – Safe To Learn: embedding anti-bullying work in schools. It outlines, in one place, the Government’s approach to bullying, legal obligations and the powers schools have to tackle bullying, and the principles which underpin the most effective anti-bullying strategies in schools. It also lists further resources through which school staff can access specialist information on the specific issues that they face.
Some of this advice is primarily aimed at school staff, headteachers and governors in schools, 6th forms and colleges including Academies, Free schools, Pupil Referral Units and alternative providers. It also applies to independent schools, but their statutory obligations are different as noted in relevant sections.
There are a number of statutory obligations on schools with regard to behaviour which establish clear responsibilities to respond to bullying. Every school must have measures to encourage good behaviour and prevent all forms of bullying amongst pupils.
Homophobia in Sport - New Charter Tackles Homophobia
As part of the drive to tackle homophobia in sport, Sport England, Sport Northern Ireland, Sport Scotland, Sport Wales and UK Sport last week jointly signed up to the Government Equalities Office (GEO) Charter on Homophobia and Transphobia in Sport. More...
Preventing and tackling bullying
This document produced by DfE to help schools prevent and respond to bullying as part of their overall behaviour policy was updated on 11th July 2011. More...
ABA Anti-Bullying Week 2011 Competition
The Anti-bullying Alliance is delighted to partner with Stand Tall: A Rock Musical to promote this year’s Anti-Bullying Week competition. More...
Create the Change Ambassador Programme: Developing Communication Skills for Ages 13+
Peace Child International are running Ambassador training programmes which promote:
better listening, looking at anger triggers, building up resilience against bullying, exploring how we work with people who are different to ourselves and how we have a choice in how we react to situations. This programme free to schools in Hertfordshire has been sponsored by the Paul Hamlyn Foundation. Ambassadors create short theatre pieces and use role play and games as they develop one hour workshops for their younger peers.
For further information Email: esd@peacechild.org
This event/course is offered through an external provider and therefore Hertfordshire County Council recommend that schools make independent checks regarding the quality of the service provided.
Teenage Relationship Abuse
The home office have now provided guidance on these important issues. More...
How Fair is Britain?
Tackling the challenge of identity-based bullying
The Triennial Review, 'How fair is Britain?' focused attention on the need to tackle the high incidence of identity-based bullying of young people, both within schools and the wider community. Reducing incidence of homophobic, transphobic, disability-related and religiously motivated bullying in schools and workplaces was identified as one of the 15 significant challenges for society to address. More...
Negative Sexual Experience Document
This guidance will be distributed in hard copy to secondary sector schools attending the March 14th conference on Sexual Bullying. More...
Free Anti-Bullying Pack for Parents
Parentline Plus, part of the Family Lives Group, is offering parents a series of free family friendly leaflets that help address and tackle the problem of bullying. More...
Homophobic Bullying
If you want to make a real difference and dramatically reduce or eradicate homophobic bullying and the offensive use of the word "gay" have a look at the ideas in this article. More...
FIT, the movie
 As Stonewall Education Champions, Hertfordshire CSF are delighted to inform you about FIT which is the feature film adaptation of Stonewall’s highly successful play for schools aimed at tackling homophobic bullying. Interactive DVDs of FIT have been sent out to every secondary school in Britain.
Homophobic bullying is rife in schools. In recent YouGov research for Stonewall, nine in ten teachers said their pupils experience homophobic bullying. But nine in ten teachers have never received any training on how to prevent and respond to homophobic bullying. More...
Inspecting bullying
Ofsted newsletter Schools and Inspection 2nd March 2010 - Inspecting bullying
Preventing and responding to bullying
You will be aware that a key priority of the Children and Young People’s Plan (CYPP) focuses on children and young people being confident to respond to bullying. This new guidance will assist you in this process. More...
e-ngage: Online eSafety, Anti-bullying & PSHE Sessions
 E-ngage Live offer exciting, interactive learning sessions around Online Safety, Anti-Bullying and PSHE topics, through online collaboration with experts in these fields.
It provides a secure environment for learners between Years 5 and 7 to ask and answer questions with these experts, discuss scenarios with their peers and work at their own pace. More...
Hertfordshire Anti-Bullying Accreditation
Schools that are keen to ensure they have rigorous policy and procedure in place to prevent and respond to bullying may wish to register to work towards achieving the HAA.
Bullying & Racist Incidents in Herts
Schools provide their termly data for bullying and racist incidents via the SOLERO system. The report for 2009/10 will be available in the Spring term 2011.
Previous reports can be found in the Auditing & Monitoring. More...
Education
Champions Programme
New
Hertfordshire is now working with Stonewall as part of their Education Champions programme. A new initiative, Drawing the Line, was launched during Anti-Bullying Week 2010. Schools are invited to make a commitment to take action to relegate homophobia to history.
Drawing the Line Leaflet can be downloaded from here:
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