{"id":9969,"date":"2020-11-18T16:40:21","date_gmt":"2020-11-18T16:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/re\/stdavids\/?p=9969"},"modified":"2020-11-18T16:40:21","modified_gmt":"2020-11-18T16:40:21","slug":"anti-bullying-week-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/re\/stdavids\/2020\/11\/18\/anti-bullying-week-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Anti Bullying Week"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Our Respect for All policy outlines our definition of bullying:<\/p>\n

Bullying is both behaviour and impact; the impact is on a person\u2019s capacity to feel in control of themselves. This is what we term as their sense of \u2018agency\u2019. Bullying takes place in the context of relationships. It is behaviour that can make people feel hurt, threatened, frightened, left out and lack self-confidence. This behaviour happens face to face and online.<\/p>\n

Bullying behaviour can harm people physically or emotionally and, although the actual behaviour may not be repeated, the threat may be sustained over time, typically by actions, looks, messages, confrontations, physical interventions or the fear of these. Bullying behaviour can happen as a one-off incident or can be persistent. Each incident requires investigation to establish whether the
\nbehaviour has been bullying, the impact the behaviour has had and what support is required for all children involved.<\/p>\n

In line with \u2018Respect for All\u2019 and Renfrewshire Council\u2019s Anti-bullying Policy, West Johnstone Campus recognise that not all disagreements between children and young people are necessarily bullying in nature and the need to consider both the behaviour and impact when investigating and resolving allegations of
\nbullying behaviour.<\/p>\n

Renfrewshire Council and West Johnstone Campus also recognise that labelling children and young people as \u2018bullies\u2019 or \u2018victims\u2019 can be disempowering and does not help to change behaviour or support recovery from being bullied.<\/p>\n

Renfrewshire Council expects adults managing bullying to be able to distinguish between a person and their behaviour. It is also an expectation that all people, including those who are bullying, should always be treated with respect. Not labelling children helps to maintain the adult\u2019s focus and response on the problematic behaviour.<\/p>\n

\nBullying behaviour can include:<\/p>\n