Help for professionals

As a professional engaged in teaching, social work, youth work, or any of the other myriad roles that bring you and other professionals into daily contact with young people, bullying can be remarkably difficult to detect, let alone respond to. Your jobs are pressured and challenging at the best of times, but you also have the care and welfare of young people to consider within your work. Where do you start? What are the key indicators and symptoms that all of us should be aware of? Let’s start with a list of key signs that will help.

There are certain physical, emotional and behavioural signs that you should keep an eye out for that will help you make a judgment on how best to make an intervention so that a child or young person being bullied can be assisted and supported.

How to intervene