{"id":364,"date":"2012-02-06T08:31:37","date_gmt":"2012-02-06T08:31:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/crowe-pledges-support-to-anti-bullying-measures\/"},"modified":"2012-02-06T08:31:37","modified_gmt":"2012-02-06T08:31:37","slug":"crowe-pledges-support-to-anti-bullying-measures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/crowe-pledges-support-to-anti-bullying-measures\/","title":{"rendered":"Crowe pledges support to anti-bullying measures"},"content":{"rendered":"

Crowe<\/span> pledges support to anti-bullying measures<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sinn Fein Deputy Se\u00e1n Crowe<\/span> met in Leinster House with members of the National Anti-Bullying Coalition and pledged his support for the examination of a strategy to address the problem of bullying in schools.<\/p>\n

Deputy Crowe<\/span> was accompanied to the meeting by Sligo- Leitrim TD Miche\u00e1l Colreavy and Senator Kathryn O\u2019Reilly the party\u2019s education spokesperson in the Seanad.\u00a0 The Sinn F\u00e9in representatives committed their full and active support to the establishment of a new forum to tackle bullying in schools.<\/p>\n

Deputy Se\u00e1n Crowe<\/span> said:<\/p>\n

\u201cThis was a very useful discussion and I wish to commend the work of the National Anti-Bullying Coalition (NABC) for the important work it is doing to introduce structural\u00a0 change in the way bullying is dealt with in schools.<\/p>\n

\u201cGovernment claims that we are making progress in addressing this issue do not reflect the reality in many schools, where bullying is extremely damaging and is often a contributory factor to mental health problems, self-harm and even suicide.<\/p>\n

\u201cRecent studies have shown that bullying is related to physiological problems and absenteeism amongst staff and pupils.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe need to recognise that many victims of bullying are forced to leave school and this leads to problems in later life.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe also know that over half of male bullies have at least one criminal conviction and these figures seem to be rising.<\/p>\n

\u201cIreland is a signatory to the Council of Europe\u2019s Children\u2019s Charter yet there is no training for teachers to deal with this issue and there is no clear mechanism in place in schools where complaints can be properly and thoroughly dealt with.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt Friday\u2019s meeting I pledged Sinn F\u00e9in’s support for\u00a0 the work of the NABC and the implementation of the Safe School Programme that will\u00a0 introduce accredited measures to address bullying.<\/p>\n

” I welcome NABC efforts to establish a forum to overhaul treatment of this problem: a training programme to recognise bullying; a school strategy for dealing with disclosure and the implementation of audits in the education system to assess what the classroom climate in schools is really like. This is a growing problem and it must be tackled.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Crowe pledges support to anti-bullying measures Sinn Fein Deputy Se\u00e1n Crowe met in Leinster House with members of the National Anti-Bullying Coalition and pledged his support for the examination of a strategy to address the problem of bullying in schools. Deputy Crowe was accompanied to the meeting by Sligo- Leitrim TD Miche\u00e1l Colreavy and Senator […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}