{"id":381,"date":"2012-04-11T14:35:09","date_gmt":"2012-04-11T14:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/anti-bullying-initiative-must-be-implemented-crowe\/"},"modified":"2012-04-11T14:35:09","modified_gmt":"2012-04-11T14:35:09","slug":"anti-bullying-initiative-must-be-implemented-crowe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/anti-bullying-initiative-must-be-implemented-crowe\/","title":{"rendered":"Anti-bullying initiative must be implemented \u2013 Crowe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><strong>Anti-bullying initiative\u00a0must be implemented \u2013 Crowe <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Sinn F\u00e9in education spokesperson Se\u00e1n Crowe has described as  \u201cwholly inadequate\u201d the procedures and protocols that are currently in  place to deal\u00a0with bullying in schools.<\/p>\n<p>Deputy Crowe said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cComplaints to the ombudsman\u2019s office on educational matters have  risen from 37% in 2010 to 47% in 2011 with a high proportion relating to  bullying in the classroom.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBullying in primary and secondary schools is often a major  contributory factor that leads to mental health problems and incidents  of self-harm and suicide.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have personally raised this matter with the Education Minister,  Ruair\u00ed Quinn and it is disappointing that he currently has no plans to  introduce new legislation that could improve the\u00a0situation for children  trapped in this environment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Department of Education\u00a0needs to carry out an extensive audit of  how bullying is impacting on schools throughout the\u00a0State. Ireland is a  signatory of the Council of Europe\u2019s Children\u2019s Charter yet there is no  training for teaching staff to deal with this issue and no clear  mechanism in place where complaints can be properly and thoroughly dealt  with. At the very least, it should be mandatory for teachers to receive  training and up skilling in dealing with bullying.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSinn F\u00e9in supports the work of the National Anti-Bullying Coalition  and I\u00a0applaud their efforts to secure the implementation of the Safe  School Programme. This ground-breaking\u00a0programme\u00a0introduces accredited measures to address bullying and is based on empirical research and best practise in other countries.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cThe strategy needs to\u00a0be implemented by the entire school community  including teachers, management, garda\u00ed, parents and students.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFailure to address this issue will greatly undermine our education system and\u00a0will lead to even\u00a0more distress for children.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anti-bullying initiative\u00a0must be implemented \u2013 Crowe \u00a0 The Sinn F\u00e9in education spokesperson Se\u00e1n Crowe has described as \u201cwholly inadequate\u201d the procedures and protocols that are currently in place to deal\u00a0with bullying in schools. Deputy Crowe said: \u201cComplaints to the ombudsman\u2019s office on educational matters have risen from 37% in 2010 to 47% in 2011 with [&hellip;]<\/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-381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381","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=381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}