Professor James O'Higgins Norman:

Absolutely. UNESCO's whole education approach locates the school within the wider societal issues. We must always be cognisant that every child comes from a family and a community where there may be additional vulnerabilities and they will compound the problem. If someone is coming from that kind of background, and most kids at some stage in their life have some kind of issue in their background they need to deal with, that will be linked to bullying. We need to have what UNESCO calls the "whole education approach" which has different characteristics and includes things such as policy, political leadership, curriculum development, therapeutic services, and the role of the social media companies. All those have a place in the whole education approach to try to lift up the child and the family that are experiencing the vulnerability and the related bullying.