Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 22 June 2021

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills

School Bullying and the Impact on Mental Health: Discussion (Resumed)

Ms Yvonne Keating:

I will pick up briefly on the issue of documenting the findings with regard to bullying. As part of the inspectorate's plans to strengthen its reporting on and evaluation of anti-bullying measures in schools, it has planned that following the incidental inspections, which are due to roll out from September 2022, each school will be provided with a written note on the findings of the inspection with regard to each of the areas of focus. The note can be used by schools to inform their anti-bullying measures and take any necessary actions to strengthen them. Those findings will also be used to feed into a composite report which will be published. The inspectorate is aware of the need to ensure consistency in reporting on anti-bullying matters. From January 2022, the extent to which all schools are implementing the anti-bullying procedures in the five areas of focus will be reported on, not only in all whole-school evaluation reports, but in all other inspection-type models as well.

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