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Report Bullying

Nobody has the right to call you names or to treat you badly because of your colour, race, cultural background or religion. It is illegal and it can be STOPPED.

Bullying:

  • Repetitive and persistent – though sometimes a single incident can have precisely the same impact as persistent behaviour over time
  • Intentionally harmful – though occasionally the distress it causes is not consciously intended by all of those who are responsible
  • It involves an imbalance of power, leaving someone feeling helpless to prevent it or put a stop to it
  • It causes feelings of distress, fear, loneliness and lack of confidence in those who are at the receiving end

Peer support can reduce bullying and other discipline problems, increase attendance and radically improve the atmosphere of the school or community group.

BELONG aims to help BME Children facing Bullying:

  • Have access to someone non-judgemental to talk with.
  • Receive help, comfort and guidance.
  • Have access to social networks where previously isolated.
  • Have contact with and support from other BMEs.

Belong will complement existing programmes within the area adding to all the current initiatives in the field of Bullying contributing specifically from the perspective of racial bullying.

If you would like to report bullying please use the form below. You can fill in your name and contact details but you don’t have to it’s up to you. If you need to speak to someone about bullying and or racial bullying please tick the box and someone will contact you. Reading the Frequently Asked Questions may help.

You can provide us with your name if you want us to get back to you on the matter

Question: What is Bullying?

Bullying is when you are made to feel humiliated by someone or by circumstances. Bullying can mean doing or saying something that deliberately hurts, threatens or frightens someone. Bullying may be making fun of others, leaving them out, speading rumours.

 Question: Racial-Bullying What is it?

Racial bullying is treating someone unfairly simply because they belong to a diferent culture or ethnic background.
People can also experience bullying because of their religion or nationality.

 Question:  Is the Bullying My Fault?

NO IT ISN'T
No-one has the right to bully you. 
If you speak out about it, there are people who care - they will listen to you and can help.
It's important to remember that bullying is not normal.  No one deserves to be bullied.

 

Question:  Is Racial Bullying Illegal?

YES
It is illegal to treat people differently or unfairly because of how they look, if they come from a different country, suffer with a disability or have a different cultural background.

 

Information and Advice - Things which may help.

  • Bullying thrives on silence
  • Trying to ignore bullying doesn't always work, but if ignored they sometimes just get board and stop
  • Try to make notes of when you were bullied by whom and what they did.  This can help you if you decide to talk to someone
  • People who get bullied think it's their fault, but it's the bully who has the problem.
  • If you are with other people bullies may leave you alone
  • If they think you are not upset they may stop
  • Increasing your confidence can help in dealing with the situations.

Question:  Are You a Racial Bully?

  • Do you pick on people who are from a different cultural background, or who look or speak differently from you?
  • Do you call them names?
  • Do you leave them out when you are playing?
  • Do you steal from them?
  • Do you hurt or abuse them? 

If you are bullying.

You can talk to someone there are people who are willing to listen and help.  They will explain how you can express what is going on in other ways, before things go too far.