‘BEING LGBT IN SCHOOL’

1.2 DEPARTMENT
OF EDUCATION
ANTI-BULLYING
PROCEDURES
FOR PRIMARY AND
POST-PRIMARY
SCHOOLS
In September 2013, following extensive
consultation with relevant education
partners, the Department of Education
and Skills issued Anti-Bullying Procedures
for Primary and Post-primary schools. These
new procedures replaced the existing 1993
Guidelines on Countering Bullying Behaviour in
Primary and Post-Primary Schools.
The purpose of the procedures, as outlined
in the accompanying Departmental circular
Anti-Bullying Procedures for Primary and Post-
Primary Schools (45/2013d), is to give direction
and guidance to school authorities and
school personnel in
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preventing and tackling school-based
bullying behaviour amongst students,
and
dealing with any negative impact within
school, of bullying behaviour that occurs
elsewhere.
The procedures make clear that the
definition of bullying includes cyberbullying
and identity-based bullying (such as
homophobic bullying and racist bullying).
A Resource for Post-Primary Schools to Prevent Homophobic and Transphobic Bullying and Support LGBT Students
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