Anti-bullying training session for Parents

The session will enable you to support your child regarding issues of bullying and will also inform you about the Anti Bullying Procedures for Primary and Post Primary Schools.

Each session runs for one and a half hours and is provided FREE of charge.

Please note these sessions have been developed specifically for a parent audience and they are therefore not suitable for children.

If you would like further information on booking an Anti Bullying Training Session in your local school please contact training@npc.ie or telephone: 01 8874475.

The training is funded by the Department of Education under the Anti Bullying Action Plan.

Cineáltas: Action Plan on Bullying was published on 1st December 2022. Cineáltas is the Department of Education’s whole-education approach to preventing and addressing bullying in schools. Cineáltas is dedicated to the prevention and addressing of bullying, cyber bullying, racist bullying, gender identity bullying and sexual harassment, among other areas, in schools.

One of the more significant actions in Cineáltas was to update the anti-bullying procedures for schools. On 19 June 2024, Bí Cineálta: Procedures to Prevent and Address Bullying Behaviour for Primary and Post-Primary Schools were published and are effective from the beginning of the 2025/2026 school year.   These ‘Bí Cineálta’ (Be Kind) procedures were developed in collaboration with the education partners and are heavily informed by the views of children and young people, parents, school staff, board of management members and the wider education community.

The Bí Cineálta procedures are centred on a child rights-based approach and support a partnership approach where all members of the school community work together to prevent and address bullying behaviour.

The school community has a responsibility to prevent and address bullying behaviour.  Schools will work in partnership with their patron, board of management, staff, students and their parents to implement their Bí Cineálta policy.

The Bí Cineálta procedures provide that:

• Collaboration between parents and school staff is essential to effectively  prevent and address bullying behaviour. 
• Schools should promote active partnership with parents which can help reinforce values that discourage bullying behaviour.
  -  Schools should engage with their school community, including parents, to develop and review their Bí Cineálta policy.
  -  Schools are required to develop an accessible version of their Bí Cineálta policy that is easy to understand for students and parents, and display this where it can be seen.
• Where bullying behaviour has occurred, the school must engage with the parents of the students involved to inform them of the matter and to consult with them on the actions to be taken to address the behaviour, as outlined in the school’s Bi Cineálta policy.
• A further review of an incident of bullying behaviour must take place with students and parents no more than 20 days after the initial discussion.
• The views of students and  parents should be recorded on the incident record, including their views on whether the bullying behaviour has ceased

To book the course online please complete the application form below

or if you would prefer to download an application from please  click here