Children’s Commissioner to take action on bullying

Children’s Commissioner to take action on bullying

Commissioner Deborah McMillan has now collated the information provided to her by around 2,000 three-to-18-year-olds, as well as adults and professionals working with children and young people.

The information will be used to help set the agenda for the commissioner, who was taken on following a recommendation by the Independent Jersey Care Inquiry.

Mrs McMillan, who took on the new role in January, said: ‘I want to make sure that the areas I focus on are the areas that are of the greatest concern to children and young people.

‘The results of this consultation will give me the steer I need to develop my priorities. The next step will be to produce a more detailed report of my consultation findings and I will then outline the actions I will take to address the issues that have been raised.’

More places to go and more things to do came top of improvements that 11–18-year-olds would like to see in their local area, while 61 per cent of the same age group said that they never got asked for their views about what happens in their local area. Seven per cent of 11–18-year-olds said they were picked on or hurt on purpose by other young people ‘most days’, a further five per cent said it happened once a week, six per cent once a month, 16 per cent every few months and 66 per cent said that it never happened.

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