During the recent Anti-Bullying Week, schools focused on bullying among students, running anti-bullying assemblies and PSHE sessions. Maybe you led one of these.
Far fewer schools will have held anti-bullying sessions for their employees. However, many of the teachers we have spoken to recently say they have encountered bullying at work.
Many people consider workplace bullying to be an inevitable part of working life, especially when the pressure is on due to budget cuts.
However, outside of schools, a survey of all workplaces found that the population has enjoyed relatively low stress and good change management since 2004. The Health and Safety Executive was responsible for charting working conditions until 2010 and its last report found that “psycho-social working conditions have remained positive”. So if conditions for the working population are good, what is the picture in schools, where there have been frequent changes, to practices and curriculum, for a generation?
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