To encourage young people to report incidents of bullying, theft,
crime or any antisocial behaviour directly to schools - Text Someone was born,
allowing schools to offer pupils the chance to text, email or call 24 hours a day
7 days a week, to report any problems they may have. Once the school has received the
message they can then take the appropriate action.
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Research by children's charity NCH suggested 16% of 11 to 19 year-olds
had received threatening text messages. Text Someone allows schools to fight
back against this trend. Students can simply forward the unwanted message on to
the school along with details of when the message was received allowing them to
prove incidents.
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In 2000 the Department for Education and Skills launched a campaign and an anti-bullying
pack focusing on encouraging young people to speak up and inform teachers, parents or
friends when they were bullied.
'Don't suffer in Silence'
was the theme.
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