Cyberbullying - supporting school staff - Anti-Bullying

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What is cyberbullying?

Some features of cyberbullying are different to other forms of bullying:

Cyberbullying can take place 24/7. Incidents can take place in the victim’s own home, intruding into spaces that have previously been regarded as safe and private.
The audience can be very large and reached rapidly. The difficulty in controlling electronically circulated messages means the scale and scope of cyberbullying can be greater than for other forms of bullying. Electronically forwarde...