Bullying Facts

Almost half of all children and young people (44%) say that they’ve been bullied at school, according to the Tellus3 survey, carried out in 2008 by Ofsted (the Office for Standards in Education).

There are a lot of different types of bullying, bullying can include

  • verbal abuse, including swearing or calling someone names
  • physical abuse
  • threatening violence
  • taking or hiding a person’s possessions
  • ignoring someone, or getting others to ignore them
  • cyber bullying

Around 350,000 primary school children are bullied every week during term time.

Between 16 – 20 children take their own lives every year due to school bullying.

Every seven seconds in Britain someone is bullied.

According to BBC figures, eight out of 10 children will be bullied at some time in their young lives.

In a recent government survey, a quarter of children questioned admitted that they were sometimes afraid to go to school because of bullying.

Research for ChildLine and the Department for Education and Skills (DfES) found that just over half (54%) of both primary and secondary school children thought that bullying was ‘a big problem’ or ‘quite a big problem’ in their school. Just over half (51%) of Year 5 students (aged 9-10) reported that they had been bullied during the preceding term compared with just over a quarter (28%) of Year 8 students (aged 12-13). 15% of primary school students, and 12% of secondary school students said that they had both bullied other children and been bullied themselves in the last year.

Bullying has powerful effects on young people, it wears you down and you often feel as though you can’t stop it. It can have everlasting effects on you and can even affect you in adulthood.

Bullying can happen anywhere, one in four people are bullied at work

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