Leading children’s charity Barnardo’s is celebrating training over 8,000 staff and over 640 parent, community and pupil ambassadors through an anti-homophobic, biphobic and transphobic (HBT) bullying programme. The work, which is funded by the Government Equalities Office and supported by the Department for Education, is in schools across Yorkshire & Humberside. Barnardo’s Positive Identities service delivered 411 sessions in 162 schools over the last 21 months. Evaluation forms completed after sessions have shown that participants are much better able to identify and respond to issues of discrimination and support pupils…
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Sunshine, MPC and BE COOL BE NICE® Release New Campaign
Sunshine and MPC have collaborated with the anti-bullying movement BE COOL BE NICE® to produce an animated music video and book featuring characters created with design direction from a cast of fashion all-stars. The film’s characters have design and creative input from Christopher Bailey (Chief Creative Officer, Burberry), Pat McGrath MBE (Founder, Pat McGrath Labs), Chaos Fashion (super stylists of Fendi etc Charlotte Stockdale and Katie Lyall), Henry Holland (Founder, House of Holland) and more. The characters originate from the BE COOL BE NICE® book, on sale from 9 November…
Read MoreAmerica’s Leading Anti-Bullying Organization STOMP Out Bullying™ Launches Inaugural National #BlockItOutDay
On Wednesday, November 1, 2017, STOMP Out Bullying™ asked youth around the world from every corner of the web to block out their bullies, erase negative messages, and create a positive, safe digital place for youth everywhere. The leading anti-bullying and anti-cyberbullying organization is also asking youth to encourage and empower their friends to do the same creating a chain reaction that it hopes will erase cruelty, homophobia, LGBTQ discrimination, racism and online hatred. Students from the High School of Fashion Industries in New York City will be the inaugural…
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