Forum to set out roadmap on how to combat bullying

Schools will be asked to improve their efforts to combat bullying with recommendations on how to achieve it from a forum being set up by the Government.

The forum will help set the agenda for a working group to consider how to tackle the issue, including specific areas of homophobic and racist bullying, as well as cyber-bullying using social networks and modern technology.

Set up by Education Minister Ruairi Quinn, the forum will take place on May 17 at the department’s offices in Dublin to which experts, support groups and representatives of parents, students and others in the school system will be invited.