To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many acts of reported bullying were recorded in schools during each of the past three academic years.
Answered on
8 December 2015
All bullying is unacceptable and schools must have measures in place to address it. The Department does not collect information on the number of acts of reported bullying recorded in schools. Ofsted does, however, hold schools accountable for their effectiveness in tackling bullying.
In 2015-16, the Department is providing £3.3m to charitable organisations to tackle bullying and to provide support for those who are bullied. This is on top of the £4m provided in 2013-15.
The Longitudinal Study of Young Peoplein England (LSYPE), which was published in November 2015, compared bullying among two cohorts of 14 year olds (year 10 students) from 2004 and 2014. The study found that 30,000 fewer pupils said they had been bullied in the last twelve months in 2014. This represented a drop from 41 per cent in 2004 to 36 per cent in 2014.
The Department does publish information on the number of permanent and fixed period exclusions due to bullying in the “Statistics: exclusions” series. This information has been provided in the table below.
Table 1: The number of permanent and fixed period exclusions due to bullying in state-funded primary, secondary and special schools (1)(2)(3)(4) | |||||||||
2011/12 | 2012/13 | 2013/14 | |||||||
Permanent exclusions | 40 | 40 | 30 | ||||||
Fixed period exclusions | 4,490 | 3,920 | 3,360 | ||||||
1. State-funded primary schools include all primary academies, including free schools. Includes middle schools as deemed. | |||||||||
2. State-funded secondary schools include city technology colleges and all secondary academies, including all-through academies and free schools. Includes middle schools as deemed. | |||||||||
3. Special schools include maintained special schools, non-maintained special schools and special academies. Excludes general hospital schools. | |||||||||
4. Totals have been rounded to the nearest 10. | |||||||||