Professor James O'Higgins Norman:

Bullying prevention and intervention are two different things related to each other. Intervention comes when it is already too late and the bullying has taken place. This is where we need other supports. If we can do as much as possible to prevent bullying, and link it into the whole education and society approach, then we can remove the need for a lot of intervention. Our FUSE anti-bullying and online safety programme, which we deliver from the centre, is based on our research. We are gathering data all the time when we are rolling it out. It is designed to fuse together, which is where the name comes from, the agency of the children themselves, the concerns of the parents and the professionalism of the teachers. When all three are brought together something can happen in bullying prevention. I will refer to my colleague, Mr. Darran Heaney, who is the project manager and who might say more about the programme.