According to the call’s priority to combat bullying against children, the project aims at developing and implementing anti-bullying policies and practices to tackle the problem especially in detention and in residential care settings. This will be done through the development and implementation of a child rights-oriented methodology and approach which will take into account existing standards and best practices at international level. Actions will be carried out in three different national contexts - Italy, Portugal and Bulgaria - ensuring mutually beneficial learning experiences and understanding, and providing the project with a transnational dimension. Objectives General objeticve: to reduce the incidence and impact of bullying in detention and residential care settings. Specific objective: to improve the ability of juvenile justice services (in particular, detention and residential care settings) to prevent, intercept and deal with cases of bullying, throughout each of the national contexts involved. Activities 1. To assess the perception of bullying by structures’ (juvenile justice services’) staff - educators, social workers, penitential police officers, psychologists, authorities, etc. – and young people, within detention and residential care settings involved in the project. 2. To develop tools to be used by juvenile justice services for self-assessment in relation to their capacity in preventing and/or dealing with bullying as well as to support them in creating anti-bullying Policies and procedures or strengthening existing measures. 3. To carry out a self-evaluation process, on the part of the structures involved, to determine the degree of their effectiveness in relation to bullying; identifying their strengths and weaknesses and the measures needed to develop a comprehensive Policy and a set of procedures to prevent and combat bullying. 4. To carry out, on the part of the structures involved, an experimental phase in which the measures that have been prioritised are implemented. 5. To produce a set of guidelines for all the actors involved in detention and residentail care settings on how to prevent and deal with bullying cases, which will be distributed and implemented in all the juvenile justice services in each of the countries involved in the project. Type and number of persons benefiting from the project - Socio-educational and health workers in residetial care and in detention settings (social workers, child and adolescent therapists, educators, physicians), judicial system workers (structures’ authorities and penitentiary police officers). - Youg people - in conflict with the law - in detention and residential care settings aged between 12 – 18 years - Young Adults aged betwee 19 – 24 years if present within the structures involved. - A total of 280 290 Children and 260 250 Juvenile Justice Services’ Staff will be involved in the trhee countries partiipating in the project. Expected results 1. Each juvenile justice service has adopted a code of conduct/policy to prevent, identify and deal with bullying within its context. 2. The operators who work in residetail care and detention settings, are able to recognise and deal effectively with bullying cases as well as ensuring measures to prevent the phenomenon are in place. 3. Young people in residential care and in detention settings have at their disposal tools that can help them to recognise potential cases, report them and to receive effective support if they are victims, perpetrators or bystenders in istances of bullying. 4. Confering to the project a transnational dimension by involving ideas and mechanisms to be adopted by other Member States in Europe. Type and number of outputs to be produced 1. Pre-post intervention questionnaires used to carry out a survey and analysis of the actual perception of bullying within the structures involved. 2. One report on the survey results (pre and post intervention) by each of the countries involved in the project. 3. A self-evaluation tool (and an handbook) - one for adults and one for children - to support structures in developing anti-bullying Policies and procedures. 4. At least five focus groups involving selected key actors – structures’ staff and children - within each of the structures involved. 5. Each structure will produce an anti-bullying package composed by the anti-bullying Policy, its procedures and the Action Plan which includes the measures that need to be taken by each structure to be aligned with the anti-bullying Policy. 6. At least six training seminars targeting structures’ staff and children. 7. A set of Guidelines to support residential care and detention settings in developing anti-bullying Policies and procedures, in each of the countries involved in the project.
A child rights approach to combat bullying in detention and residential care settings
BRIGHI, ANTONELLA
In corso di stampa
Abstract
According to the call’s priority to combat bullying against children, the project aims at developing and implementing anti-bullying policies and practices to tackle the problem especially in detention and in residential care settings. This will be done through the development and implementation of a child rights-oriented methodology and approach which will take into account existing standards and best practices at international level. Actions will be carried out in three different national contexts - Italy, Portugal and Bulgaria - ensuring mutually beneficial learning experiences and understanding, and providing the project with a transnational dimension. Objectives General objeticve: to reduce the incidence and impact of bullying in detention and residential care settings. Specific objective: to improve the ability of juvenile justice services (in particular, detention and residential care settings) to prevent, intercept and deal with cases of bullying, throughout each of the national contexts involved. Activities 1. To assess the perception of bullying by structures’ (juvenile justice services’) staff - educators, social workers, penitential police officers, psychologists, authorities, etc. – and young people, within detention and residential care settings involved in the project. 2. To develop tools to be used by juvenile justice services for self-assessment in relation to their capacity in preventing and/or dealing with bullying as well as to support them in creating anti-bullying Policies and procedures or strengthening existing measures. 3. To carry out a self-evaluation process, on the part of the structures involved, to determine the degree of their effectiveness in relation to bullying; identifying their strengths and weaknesses and the measures needed to develop a comprehensive Policy and a set of procedures to prevent and combat bullying. 4. To carry out, on the part of the structures involved, an experimental phase in which the measures that have been prioritised are implemented. 5. To produce a set of guidelines for all the actors involved in detention and residentail care settings on how to prevent and deal with bullying cases, which will be distributed and implemented in all the juvenile justice services in each of the countries involved in the project. Type and number of persons benefiting from the project - Socio-educational and health workers in residetial care and in detention settings (social workers, child and adolescent therapists, educators, physicians), judicial system workers (structures’ authorities and penitentiary police officers). - Youg people - in conflict with the law - in detention and residential care settings aged between 12 – 18 years - Young Adults aged betwee 19 – 24 years if present within the structures involved. - A total of 280 290 Children and 260 250 Juvenile Justice Services’ Staff will be involved in the trhee countries partiipating in the project. Expected results 1. Each juvenile justice service has adopted a code of conduct/policy to prevent, identify and deal with bullying within its context. 2. The operators who work in residetail care and detention settings, are able to recognise and deal effectively with bullying cases as well as ensuring measures to prevent the phenomenon are in place. 3. Young people in residential care and in detention settings have at their disposal tools that can help them to recognise potential cases, report them and to receive effective support if they are victims, perpetrators or bystenders in istances of bullying. 4. Confering to the project a transnational dimension by involving ideas and mechanisms to be adopted by other Member States in Europe. Type and number of outputs to be produced 1. Pre-post intervention questionnaires used to carry out a survey and analysis of the actual perception of bullying within the structures involved. 2. One report on the survey results (pre and post intervention) by each of the countries involved in the project. 3. A self-evaluation tool (and an handbook) - one for adults and one for children - to support structures in developing anti-bullying Policies and procedures. 4. At least five focus groups involving selected key actors – structures’ staff and children - within each of the structures involved. 5. Each structure will produce an anti-bullying package composed by the anti-bullying Policy, its procedures and the Action Plan which includes the measures that need to be taken by each structure to be aligned with the anti-bullying Policy. 6. At least six training seminars targeting structures’ staff and children. 7. A set of Guidelines to support residential care and detention settings in developing anti-bullying Policies and procedures, in each of the countries involved in the project.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
