Guidelines

The role of policy makers is to prevent and intervene against bullying that, as a risk factor for dropping out, needs to be considered by the educational institutions like other fundamental problems. Such a task of facilitating the adequate action to be taken against bullying depends on the level of knowledge of the problem to be coped with, the comprehension of the complexity of the institutions to which the policies designed are directed, their sensitivity to the variety of target groups involved, and the ways of confrontation. Therefore, it is necessary that all policy makers make efforts to progress in the above-mentioned aspects before designing the policies of action from which not only obligations and precise actions of other professionals will follow, but also consequences for the pupils involved.