Physical Security

Does or could your school have a SAFE area? This would be a designated room that pupils can go to to escape the worries of bullying. This could have either a school counsellor, student counsellor / mentor, or a member of staff there to help or provide safety. This room could also have information, posters and resources in it relating to bullying.

Could your school conduct a regular SAFE Club? This could be adopted as a way for mediators and victims to meet and talk. Bullies or reformed bullies and their parents or guardians could also then come along and explain their actions.

Does your school have many visible student counsellors, mentors or buddies? Are they obvious, by the wearing of a badge for example?

What range of after school clubs and in-lunch clubs are there that people can go to and are they all supervised? Could the school offer a self-defence class for example, to build confidence?

Are there plenty of people to look after students at break and lunch times, particularly in the dining hall and outside? Could your school stagger lunch breaks, so that year 7 & 8 for example, go in at different times from years 9 to 11? Could they stagger the time of leaving the school at the end of the day?

On the journey to and from school could your school provide older pupils that can walk all or part of the way home with younger or bullied students? Does the school have CCTV cameras within the school and on the boundaries?

Does your school have a trained adult counsellor or a police officer assigned to the school? If not, could they?

Are there appropriate after school clubs or groups for potential or active bullies to give them a focus in their free time?

What does the school do to provide a safe environment at the end of the school day and outside the school grounds?

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