APPENDIX 21
Anti-bullying policy - BOVEY CASTLE GC
The BOVEY CASTLE GC will:
• recognise its duty of care and responsibility to safeguard all participants from harm
• promote and implement this anti-bullying policy in addition to our safeguarding
policy and procedures
• seek to ensure that bullying behaviour is not accepted or condoned
• require all members of the BOVEY CASTLE GC to be given information about, and sign
up to, this policy
• take action to investigate and respond to any alleged incidents of bullying
• encourage and facilitate children and young people to play an active part in
developing and adopting a code of conduct to address bullying
• ensure that staff, volunteers and coaches are given access to information, guidance
and/or training on bullying.
Each participant, coach, volunteer or official will:
• respect every child's need for, and rights to, a play environment where safety, security,
praise, recognition and opportunity for taking responsibility are available
• respect the feelings and views of others
• recognise that everyone is important and that our differences make each of us special
and should be valued
• show appreciation of others by acknowledging individual qualities, contributions and
progress
• be committed to the early identification of bullying, and prompt and collective action
to deal with it
• ensure safety by having rules and practices carefully explained and displayed for all to
see
• report incidents of bullying they see - by doing nothing you are condoning bullying.
Bullying
• all forms of bullying will be addressed
• everybody in the BOVEY CASTLE GC has a responsibility to work together to stop
bullying
• bullying can include online as well as offline behaviour
• bullying can include:
• physical pushing, kicking, hitting, pinching etc.
• name calling, sarcasm, spreading rumours, persistent teasing and emotional torment
through ridicule, humiliation or the continual ignoring of individuals
• posting of derogatory or abusive comments, videos or images on social network sites
• racial taunts, graffiti, gestures, sectarianism - sexual comments, suggestions or
behaviour
• unwanted physical contact
• children with a disability, from ethnic minorities, young people who are gay or lesbian,
or those with learning difficulties are more vulnerable to this form of abuse and are
more likely to be targeted.