Calls for more to be done as a fifth of young people have been bullied in the last 12 months.

 Calls for more to be done as a fifth of young people have been bullied in the last 12 months.

An annual report has found that a fifth of young people in the UK have been bullied in the last 12 months. Three out of four people who were bullied said that it affected their mental health and nearly half said that they became depressed because of it.

The figures were almost the same as last year. Experiences of bullying were shared by 2,000 young people aged between 12-20 in a survey. An international charity Ditch the Label support young people to help tackle the root issues around bullying. The annual research has become its flagship piece of research.

The seventh annual survey found.

The most common type of bullying was verbal with cyberbullying the least common. Of those bullied, 33% said that they had suicidal thoughts, while 41% were left feeling anxious. Some 62% were bullied by a classmate and 37% were bullied at school by someone they didn’t know. Nearly two thirds 59% believed that attitudes towards their appearance were the likely cause of bullying. In the majority of cases, male respondents were more likely to exhibit negative attitudes than females.

Children’s Commissioner Anne Longfield said that the impact of bullying on children is enormous. More needs to be done at home and in schools. To help those who are victims of bullying and also to crucially to stop children from being bullied in the first place.

Last week a video went viral after a mum furiously confronted her son’s alleged bully.

But is it ever ok to confront your child’s bully much as you may want too? Or is it better to keep out of it?

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