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 alluded to the development of our reporting on anti-bullying in schools. It will become part of all evaluation models from 2022. In that context, those inspection reports will allude to how schools are implementing each of the five areas that I referred to earlier: the extent to which schools have anti-bullying policies in place, the timely reporting by principals to the board of management, annual reviews by the board of management of anti-bullying policies, how schools are communicating for anti-bullying policies and how they are recording incidents of anti-bullying behaviour in accordance with the 2013 procedures. Each of those items will be reported on in all school inspection types. Each will publish a report from January 2022.
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