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2008 Safe Internet Use

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Highlights of previous SSBA conferences :-

2007 Developing a Parent Council and Encouraging Parental Involvement

2006 The Way Forward for Parental Involvement

2005 Parents in Partnership

2003 Partnerships and responsibilities

2002 SSBA is fit for the future

2001 Roadshow

2000 International
and published book
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Workshops
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Bullying

Abstract

In the Netherlands bullying was recognised as a problem on individual level. A lot of initiatives had been taken on small scales, but the subject did not became a part of the dutch social agenda. A scientific research in 1992 about bullying did not ring the alarm clock. The - shocking - results were more or less ignored. Some years later on one of the dutch Parents Associations took the initiative to speak about bullying on the national level. Using the results of the research and the expertise of a psycholigist, specialised in solving individual problems on bullying, the four Dutch Parents associations started to work together. They developed a 'National Protocol against Bullying in Education' and presented this protocol togehter with a brochure in the media and to all primary and secondary schools in 1995. They aimed to put the subject on the social agenda and keep it there for eight years; the time a pupil normally spends in primary school. They offered to the schools a number of incentives. In 1997 the associations presented a 'Bullying Test'; a computerprogram which gives pupils the opportunity to answer questions about all the aspects of bullying. Afterwards the teacher can easily generate the results to get an overview and than he/she can make an adequate policy based on the results of the test.Nowadys there is not a school in the Netherlands which is not aware bullying is a real problem. In schools and in the media the subject is discussed reguraly.

In this workshop good practice in the Netherlands will be shown.

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