Tackling Bullying In The Community is a DCSF funded event which brings together experts from a range of national and local settings with strategic responsibility for safeguarding.

The seminar will offer participants the chance to hear direct from government and work actively with experts to explore how we can stimulate the development of good practice in tackling bullying in the following settings:

• Children’s Homes
• Extended services in and around Schools
• Further Education Colleges
• Journeys
• Play and Leisure
• Youth Activities

The seminar marks the start of the Anti-Bullying Alliance’s two-year programme of work to support the embedding of the recently launched DCSF suite of guidance documents Safe from Bullying.

11:45 Registration and lunch

12.40 Welcome from Chair
Christopher Cloke, Chair of Anti-Bullying Alliance and Head of Child Protection awareness, NSPCC

12.45 Opening address
Baroness Delyth Morgan, Parlimentary Under-Secretary of State for Children, Young People & Families

13.00 Safe from Bullying – a policy perspective
Jeanette Pugh, Director of Safeguarding, Department for Children Schools and Families

13.35 Discussion: Identifying key opportunities to move anti-bullying work forward

14.00 Feedback

14:15 Refreshment break

14.30 Safe from Bullying - A Local Safeguarding Children Board perspective
(speaker tbc)

15.05 Discussion: Action planning - turning strategic commitment into timely and effective practical action.

15.30 Feedback

16.00 Closing remarks

The Anti-Bullying Alliance is a unique coalition of over sixty statutory and non-statutory agencies working together to prevent the bullying of children and young people in all its forms.

Places to this free event are limited so that delegates can work actively with policy and anti-bullying experts to explore how we can stimulate the development of good anti-bullying practice.