4 Quid A Kid
Beatbullying's 4 Quid A Kid campaign has undoubtedly been our most successful piece of campaigning to date. On 26 March 2007, we officially launched the campaign by petitioning the Prime Minister. The petition was a culmination of Beatbullying's campaigning work until that point, promoting prevention in our schools and communities.
A year later, the success of the campaign has been phenomenal. We invited Gordon Brown to The Big Stand in May and he took the time to look in detail at the great peer mentoring and prevention work we were doing in two different schools. We kept up the pressure all year long, lobbying Government to financially commit to bullying prevention ins chools and in the community. And the exceptional news is that the Government is to pilot mentoring schemes across the UK in April of this year.
The Petition
"We, the undersigned, petition the Prime Minister to pledge 4 Quid A Kid each year to run bullying prevention programmes for children and young people nationwide."
Dear Prime Minister,
You have consistently shown support for the education sector. In January 2007 in the Guardian newspaper you called for “every parent, student and school in Britain and the developed world to become campaigners”, calling on every government to give every child access to schooling.
In the Pre-Budget report in December, you stated that you had “become convinced that for Britain to rise to the global challenge, we should commit now to year by year improvements in investment in our schools and educational establishments”.
In the budget last week Prime Minister, you announced that education spending would rise to £90 billion by 2010-11. 4 Quid A Kid to tackle bullying is just £36million of that £90billion, or 0.040% of the budget.
81% of parents hope you will invest in bullying prevention programmes in UK schools as a matter of urgency.
Prime Minister, we are taking you at your word - we appeal to you to make the committment to beat bullying!
Read the original press release
The 4 Quid A Kid campaign microsite