Anti Bullying Action Group
Chilypep set up Sheffield’s first City Wide Youth Council (SYC), in 2007 after Young People from the Youth Opportunity Grant Panel asked CHILYPEP to help them develop one. The Youth Council quickly identified tackling bullying to be one of their key priorities. They successfully campaigned for the reduction of bullying to be included as a target in Sheffield’s Local Area Agreement, the ‘Big Plan’ for the City, and since then we have helped them work with partners to set up a Multi Agency Anti-Bullying Action Group which meets to discuss and plan what needs to be done.
The Youth Council suggested a range of activities to try and address the issue of bullying in the City and different members of the Anti Bullying Action Group agreed to take these ideas forward.
Over the last 18 months Chilypep have supported a range of Young People who are members of the Youth Council to set up new SYC Action Groups to take some of this work forward.
Here’s just some of the fantastic work these young people have achieve so far:
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Supported members of SYC to attend, take part in and contribute to the work of the Multi Agency Anti Bullying Action Group. |
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Set up and supported GLOBAL (Gay, Lesbian and Others Becoming Active Leaders) who have carried out peer research about homophobic bullying, transphobic bullying and bullying in general. |
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Set up and supported Kaw Thoo Lei, a group of young Burmese and Thai refugees and asylum seekers who have produced a DVD about their own experiences of bullying. |
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Supported Soul and Fame, a Chilypep group for Young People with learning difficulties and disabilities to carry out peer research into a range of issues for people with learning difficulties and disabilities including how bullying affects them. |
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Supported members of the Youth Council to judge entries to a drama competition, which invited primary and secondary school to produce a drama piece about the issue of bullying. Westways Primary School and Tapton Secondary won this competition and their pieces were recorded onto DVD. Members of the Youth Council groups along with partners from the anti-bullying action group are now working on a toolkit that will be put onto a DVD along with these drama pieces to be sent to all schools in Sheffield. |
As a result of all the hard work carried out by the Young People involved, Sheffield Youth Council has received the Diana Award for their anti bullying work!
Over the next few months each of the groups involved will be nominated individually to receive the award in recognition of the unique contribution they have made!
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