Guidelines

To establish protocols of action it is necessary to clarify the responsibilities of each of the educators and the steps to be followed in a specific case of bullying. Although it is not common, in some places the educational administration provides a specific protocol. However, where such protocol is not provided, it is important that the procedure to follow further to the detection of a bullying event is put into effect. In both cases, it would be useful that the headteacher let teachers, students and families know them. The steps to be followed would be:

• To review the possible existence of a bullying protocol in the area
• In case there is a protocol, analyze and make it known among all of the teachers, families and students. To perform a simulation would be recommended
• In case there isn't any protocol, look for existing protocols, choose the one that is considered as the most suitable or design one protocol by yourself starting from the existing ones. Analyze the definitive protocol and make it known among all of the teachers, families and students. In this case, to perform a simulation is also recommended.