The Million a Week Campaign

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A million young people a week are affected by bullying. The message from the young people of beatbullying and Actionwork is:

enough is enough!

The following statement from young people (we hope) will form the biggest on-line petition the UK has ever seen. Please join them, by sending in this petition, giving a voice to young people and supporting them in their efforts to beatbullying.

“Statistics show that young people in the United Kingdom suffer over a million incidents of bullying every week. We demand that the government not only recognise the seriousness of bullying, but also act to find ways to protect us against its effects.

We are in the schools, we are on the streets, we are living with bullying every day of every month of every year. We want adults to realise that we are living in fear, we are excluded, isolated, terrorised, ignored, violently attacked, emotionally disturbed and hospitalised. We truant to protect ourselves, we self-harm and sometimes we kill ourselves because we are bullied. Together we are saying enough is enough.

The young people of the United Kingdom want and need:

• Adults to realise that young people know how to beatbullying. We have the solutions, we can mentor, campaign, support and assist our peers, we can be assertive, we can change the culture.
• All adults working with children, wherever they are in our community to be trained in providing young people with anti-bullying help, support and strategies.
• All adults studying to be teachers or youth workers to have proper anti-bullying training before they enter our schools or youth clubs to teach or work with us.
• Strategies to deal with bullying to be taught as part of the curriculum, perhaps as part of personal, social and health education.
• Borough councils to have anti-bullying strategies which deal with bullying as a community issue, and that these policies are open for public comment and review”.

Please sign this petition by filling in your name and then clicking on the ENOUGH IS ENOUGH button!

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Thankyou very much indeed!

x BB and Actionwork