‘The Kids Are United’ song is accompanied by a video made by hundreds of children in their school ‘bubbles’ and has been released to coincide with Odd Socks Day for Anti-Bullying Week (starting Monday 16 November). Odd Socks Day encourages everyone to wear odd socks to school or work and celebrate what makes us all unique.
The theme of the week, which is organised by the Anti-Bullying Alliance (ABA), is ‘United Against Bullying’.
Andy Day and his Odd Socks band will be sharing their song and discussing bullying in an online assembly to schools across the country.
A poll of 2,000 11- to 16-year-olds, commissioned by the ABA, suggests that Covid-19 has affected how bullying takes place, with rising numbers of children reporting incidents online or in their communities compared to a similar survey last year, and fewer children saying they had been bullied in school, likely due to school closures.
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