UK Agency Published Anti-Bullying Strategies 2025

Since CURB’s 2020 Update — What’s Changed?

Wales - Statutory Guidance - May 2025

 

Rights, Repect, Equality is now the official anit-bullying framework for all schools and educational settings in Wales.  This includes:

  • Legal obligation for schools and local authorities to follow guidance
  • Applies to maintained and non maintained schools, Pupil Referral Units (PRUs), independant schools and special schools
  • Emphasises safeguarding, emotional wellbeing, and inclusive practice
  • Requires schools to have acceseible versions of their anit-bullying policies for children and young people.
  • This guildance is enforceable and must be followed. 

 

 Children’s Commissioner for Wales

 Accessibility Update (June 2025)

 

In June 2025, the Children’s Commissioner for Wales launched a new child-friendly booklet designed to help pupils understand their school’s anti-bullying policy.

 

This initiative encourages all schools to create accessible versions of their policies — ensuring children and young people can read, understand, and engage with the protections meant to safeguard them.

 

CURB welcomes this development and threads it into our ongoing accessibility advocacy.


Clarity, formatting, and emotional legibility are essential — especially for children navigating complex systems or facing barriers to understanding.

 

CURB continues to adapt all guidance and documentation to ensure:

  • Plain-language synthesis
  • Visual formatting that supports screen readers
  • Emotional clarity for children and families under stress

We believe every child deserves to understand the protections available to them — not just in theory, but in practice.

 

For more information, visit:

  • gov.wales
  • Anti-Bullying Alliance 
  • Children's Commission for Wales 

 

England — Policy Recommendations

 

The Anti-Bullying Alliance issued a set of nine national recommendations, but they are not yet law. They include:

  • Mandatory anti-bullying training in Initial Teacher Training
  • CPD for all school staff, including transport and lunchtime supervisors
  •  Training for Ofsted inspectors and professionals in CAMHS, youth services, and social care
  • Emphasis on mental health, accountability, and evidence-based practice
    These are advisory and reflect growing pressure for reform — but they are not statutory.

Children’s Commissioner for England

 Safeguarding & Anti-Bullying Advocacy (2025)

 

In May 2025, the Children’s Commissioner for England issued a formal briefing in support of the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill — a proposed law aimed at safeguarding vulnerable children and improving school systems nationwide.

Key priorities include:

  • Legal protections for children at risk of harm, including those in care or living away from home
  • A unique identifying number for every child, to prevent children from being lost in the system
  • A national register of children not in school, to ensure no child is hidden from public services
  • Stronger safeguards for children in illegal homes or facing deprivation of liberty
  • Clearer protections from assault, eliminating ambiguity around acceptable levels of violence

The Commissioner has also called for

  • Better support for children with complex needs, including those with disabilities or learning challenges
  • Stronger accountability for services that fail to protect children, especially in cases of bullying, grooming, or neglect

These priorities align with CURB’s advocacy — especially around emotional safety, documentation, and systemic reform.

For more information, visit:

  • Children's Commissioner for England
  • Anti-Bullying Alliance
  • gov.uk

CURB’s Invitation to Parents 

 

The new Rights, Respect, Equality framework is now enforceable across all schools in Wales. This marks a shift from policy expectation to legal safeguarding — but it’s still early days.


CURB recognises that both Wales and England are in the infancy of implementation. We are monitoring how these changes affect real families, and we need your voice.

 

CURB is run by parents with lived experience. We are not funded, and we do not have a team — just a small group working to protect children and support families.

 

You can contact CURB via:

  • CURB_321@outlook.com 
  • CURB’s Guest Page (for structured submissions)

All correspondence is treated with care and confidentiality.

 

CURB does not record personal data — only the patterns that help us protect others.

 

Abbreviation Key

 

CAMHS – Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services
CPD – Continuing Professional Development
PRUs – Pupil Referral Units

 

(Children Under Risk from Bullying) 

 

     

 

 

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