ABSTRACT
For a school to write an anti-bullying policy seems a common sense first step to reduce all forms of bullying (see chapter 3). While established practice in a school could be transmitted orally, with school communities being increasingly mobile, both with new intakes of students each year as well as staff changes, it would seem sensible to write down guidelines about both prevention and intervention of bullying. We know the negative consequences for everybody involved in bullying, for the student who is victimised, for the student who perpetrates the bullying, for students who are both victims and perpetrators, for the bystanders and for parents and staff at the school.
