Description
Bullying and cyber bullying have significant detrimental impacts on student mental health and wellbeing. Bullying undermines student wellbeing, attendance, engagement and learning outcomes. It also contributes to lifelong impacts such as reduced community participation, poor social-economic outcomes, and increases in ill-mental and physical health.Bullying is not something that happens just in schools, but schools are places where we can identify instances of bullying, intervene, and provide support to children and young people. Bullying is a complex social issue that requires action at multiple levels: within schools at the leader, educator and student levels; within families and communities; and across all levels of government and non-government school organisations.
The Anti-Bullying Rapid Review will provide Education Ministers with:
An overview of relevant research and evidence on best practice in relation to preventing and responding to bullying in school contexts – including addressing bullying behaviours and reducing underlying causes.
A stocktake of bullying interventions in place in Australian schools.
A desktop review of the effectiveness of different types of interventions to address bullying behaviours and support individuals who have been bullied.
Details of possible models for a consistent national standard for responding to bullying and its underlying causes in school contexts.
Advice on what a consistent national standard to address bullying should comprise. This may include principles for proactive procedures, data collection, communication, feedback processes and intervention mechanisms and escalation pathways. It may also include other features such as considerations for responding to bullying of specific cohorts such as students with disability.
Advice on how the success or otherwise of a consistent national standard could be determined.
| Period | 27 Jun 2025 |
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| Held at | Sch of Educational Psych & Counselling |
| Degree of Recognition | National |