Gillard at the National Centre Against Bullying Conference, Melbourne
Bullying affects everybody and, therefore, there is a need for a national commitment to increase cybersafety and reduce bullying across the community. As a result of the conference, NCAB is calling for 10 key actions...
Canadian Research Chair on Child Social Development at Laval University's Svchool of Psychology, Michel Boivin, has told the National Centre Against Bullying Conference, that children as young as three can be at risk of peer victimisation...
Julie Coffin, from the Combined Universities Centre for Rural Health in WA, told the National Centre Against Bullying Confeerence that Aboriginal children are being bullied daily and require their own solutions to tackle the problem.
Meanwhile football, netball and other sports academies in Aboriginal communities were making the problem worse, by dividing the community further...
Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard announced today an intensive education campaign with schools to ensure they all have detailed safe schools plans as part of the revised National Safe Schools Framework.
Bill Belsey, founder of www.bullying.org.au told the National Centre Against Bullying Conference that most teachers have not been trained to deal with cyberbullying, but it's the number one non-academic issue in the classroom.
NCAB Chair, Alastair Nicholson AO RFD QC says, "Bullying has taken on a new dimension with the advent of the internet with its social networking sites, email, mobile phones and digital photography, which has led to a widening of the number of children affected by bullying and increased difficulty of control.
We must have a natiuonal approach that guides and supports schools to respond to and prevent this form of abuse for the wellbeing of students.
This conference will address those issues squarely and will examine innovative approaches that have been developed to address the problem."
The Alannah and Madeline Foundation is nearing completing of its National Pilot of a framework for increasing cybersafety and reducing the incidence of bullying, including cyberhullying, in schools across Australia.
The anecdotal feedback from schools has been almost universally positive. The initiative will be discussed at 4th Biennial National Centre Against Bullying (NCAB) Conference in Melbourne from April 9-10, 2010.
Technology should not be banned or blocked in an effort to prevent cyberbullying, according to Bill Belsey, Canadian anti-bullying educator who will be presenting at the upcoming 4th biennial NCAB conference 9-10 April, 2010.
Cybersafety education expert, Mady Ross, believe cybersafety education for all children and young people should be an integral part of a schools approach to this serious issue.
Ms Ross, Schools Services Manager, Cybersafety and Wellbeing Initiative at The Alannah and Madeline Foundation will be speaking at the upcoming confernece, about the opportunities and risks to young people using the internet.
Existing policies and practices in schools are inadequate to deal with the growing common behaviour of cyber and other covert bullying, according to bullying prevention expert Professor Donna Cross from Child and Adolescent Health at Edith Cowan University in Western Australia.
Professor Cross will be one of the keynote speakers presenting her research findings on the comparisons between cyberbullying and face-to-face bullying at the 4th Biennial National Centre Against Bullying (NCAB) Conference in Melbourne from April 9-10, 2010.
Engaging bullies and their victims can be an effective method of preventing bullying from continuing in Australian schools, according one of the nation's leading experts in peer victimisation, Adjunct Professor Ken Rigby, of the University of South Australia.
Prof. Rigby will discuss the method with teachers in the community health sector at the forthcoming 4th Biennial National Centre Against Bullying (NCAB)conference in Melbourne on April 9-10, 2010.
School students had the right to expect strong support from their school if they were bullied, or mistreated by fellow students, one of the nation's leading experts on bullying, Dr. Helen McGrath, said today.
Dr. McGrath, of Deakin University, is a board member of the National Centre Against Bullying. She will speak at the 4th Biennial National Centre Against Bullying conference in Melbourne from April 9-10, 2010.
Parents' 'scorecards' on school bullying and safety on the national My School website could be a very positive contribution to making schools safer for vulnerable students Adjunct Professor, Ken Rigby, said today.
Prof. Rigby is one of Australia's foremost experts in peer victimisation and a member of the National Centre Against Bullying (NCAB), an initiative of The Alannah and Madeline Foundation.
Covert and cyber bullying in schools - together with cybersafety and student wellbeing - will be the focus of the 4th Biennial National Centre Against Bullying (NCAB) conference in Melbourne, Australia, from April 9-10, 2010.
An initiative of The Alannah and Madeline Foundation, NCAB is a peak body working to advise and inform the Australian community on the issue of childhood bullying and the creation of safe schools and communities - including cybersafety.
