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