{"id":154,"date":"2009-11-13T15:07:57","date_gmt":"2009-11-13T15:07:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highlandesafety.wordpress.com\/2009\/11\/13\/victims-of-cyberbullying-to-receive-support-in-the-highlands\/"},"modified":"2010-09-09T16:07:01","modified_gmt":"2010-09-09T16:07:01","slug":"victims-of-cyberbullying-to-receive-support-in-the-highlands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/ISRU-News\/2009\/11\/13\/victims-of-cyberbullying-to-receive-support-in-the-highlands\/","title":{"rendered":"Targets of cyberbullying to receive support in the Highlands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-size: .825em;color: #474a75\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: medium\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia;font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px\">Guidance on tackling bullying via the Internet and mobile phones is soon to be distributed to all staff in education, culture and sport establishments throughout The Highland Council\u2019s area.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #474a75\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia;font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px\">Councillor Bill Fernie, Chairman of the Council\u2019s Education, Culture and Sport Committee said: \u201cMembers have given their full endorsement to new Cyberbullying Guidance which was created by a multi-agency\/organisation working group.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #474a75\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia;font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px\">The working group consulted widely with the Local Negotiating Committee for Teachers (LNCT), the Council\u2019s E-Safety Strategy Group, parents and teachers of primary and secondary schools; Northern Constabulary and NHS Highland; the Council\u2019s Legal Service and Education, Culture and Sport Service Officers; and the voluntary sector.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #474a75\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia;font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px\">Report author, Louise Jones, Health Promoting Schools Manager informed members that advice on the draft version of the guidance was also sought from the national anti-bullying organisation \u2018<a href=\"http:\/\/www.respectme.org.uk\/\">Respectme\u2019<\/a>. She stated that: \u201cRespectme are unaware of any other authority in Scotland which has developed support for professionals with the unique issues which cyberbullying can present, and that Respectme congratulated Highland Council on its approach to this issue.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #474a75\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia;font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px\">The Cyberbullying Guidance will support Education, Culture and Sport staff who have to deal with children and young people who may be on the receiving end of cyberbullying. The guidance will also enable staff to learn how to avoid cyberbullying.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #474a75\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia;font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px\">Louise Jones added: \u201cCyberbullying can have devastating impacts on the targets, some of which have been our own staff in recent times through teacher rating websites. The guidance will also help staff who they themselves have been on the receiving end of cyberbullying.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #474a75\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia;font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px\">The guidance covers; an explanation of what constitutes cyberbullying; the Laws concerned; preventing, responding and investigating cyberbullying and how to work with the person displaying cyberbullying behaviour.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #474a75\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia;font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px\">Further information on cyberbullying and e-safety can be found on<\/span><\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.highlandesafety.wordpress.com\/\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia;font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px\">www.highlandesafety.wordpress.com<\/span><\/span><\/a> <span style=\"font-family: Georgia;font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px\">or by contacting Louise Jones on tel: 01463 702066.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #474a75\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia\">For more detailed information follow this <a href=\"\/\/www.highland.gov.uk\/NR\/rdonlyres\/34C9BD72-E8AE-49B1-BF57-EC00A416A436\/0\/Item9ECS5309.pdf\">link<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guidance on tackling bullying via the Internet and mobile phones is soon to be distributed to all staff in education, culture and sport establishments throughout The Highland Council\u2019s area. Councillor Bill Fernie, Chairman of the Council\u2019s Education, Culture and Sport Committee said: \u201cMembers have given their full endorsement to new Cyberbullying Guidance which was created &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/ISRU-News\/2009\/11\/13\/victims-of-cyberbullying-to-receive-support-in-the-highlands\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Targets of cyberbullying to receive support in the Highlands<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[137],"tags":[128],"class_list":["post-154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-highland","tag-esafety"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/ISRU-News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/ISRU-News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/ISRU-News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/ISRU-News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/ISRU-News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/ISRU-News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":575,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/ISRU-News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions\/575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/ISRU-News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/ISRU-News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/ISRU-News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}