Specially trained teachers ‘could reduce bullying’

SCHOOL bullying could be significantly reduced if the Government trained teachers better in how to deal with the problem, an expert psychiatrist said yesterday.

Up to one-fifth of second-level students surveyed by a North Eastern Health Board (NEHB) anti-bullying programme said they had been bullied. Many of them felt depressed and one-in-five said they felt suicidal as a result.

Dr Maria Lawlor, a NEHB consultant child psychiatrist and director of the Cool Schools