Professor James O'Higgins Norman:

If we take the Norwegian model as an example, Norway has regional educational authorities. Each educational authority has an action plan and a coordinator for implementing the national legislation and the action plan on bullying within a group of schools. Across the whole of Norway there are these regional committees which are coordinated centrally but have a local coordinator as well. If the policy is to be developed in a way that is sustainable within schools then it cannot be top-down from a centralised place and it must be resourced accordingly.

If it is okay I would like to kick that question over to my colleague, Dr. Alan Gorman, who can talk a bit more about how such a policy might be rolled out.