About the Inquiry
Page last updated: 15 November 2017
A Committee examination of various issues relating to the bullying and harassment of children and young people in the school system based on various characteristics, such as gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, faith, race or ethnic background, disability etc. as well as issues around the growing normalisation of sexualised bullying of girls and young women in education.
Timetable
Evidence
Submissions:
Supplementary submissions:
Correspondence
- EHRiC Letter to the Education and Skills Committee on school bullying and Human Rights Day, 25 October 2016 (94.5KB pdf)
- EHRiC Letter to the Deputy First Minister on Scottish Government National Approach to Anti-Bullying for Scotland's children and young people, 10 November 2016 (95KB pdf)
- Deputy First Minister's response to EHRiC letter on SG National Approach to Anti-bullying for Scotland's children and young people, 11 November 2016 (144KB pdf)
- Deputy First Minister's response to the Convener on SG National Approach to Anti-bullying for Scotland's children and young people, 1 December 2016 (4.33MB pdf)
- Girlguiding Scotland to EHRiC on school anti-bullying strategy, 16 December 2016 (134KB pdf)
- Scouts Scotland to EHRiC on bullying and harassment of young people, 1 February 2017 (624KB pdf)
- Letter of invitation from the EHRiC Convener to the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Education and Skills, 5 June 2017 (107KB pdf)
- Letter of response from the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Education and Skills, 6 July 2017 (143KB pdf)
- Letter to the Convener of the Education and Skills Committee on report on prejudice-bullying in schools, 6 July 2017 (58KB pdf)
- Letter to the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Education and Skills on prejudice-based bullying inquiry report, 6 July 2017 (130KB pdf)
- Letter from Commissioner for Children and Young People to the Convener on prejudice-based bullying inquiry report, 31 July 2017 (303KB pdf)
On 23 November 2017 the Committee formally agreed to refer the findings and recommendations of its inquiry to the Independent Review of Hate Crimes Legislation being undertaken by Lord Bracadale. The Committee also endorsed a draft submission from the Scottish Youth Parliament’s Equalities and Human Rights Committee to the Hate Crimes Review. The Committee submitted both its report and the Scottish Youth Parliament’s submission to the Hate Crimes Review as a joint submission.
On 22 May 2018 the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Education and Skills, John Swinney MSP, wrote to the Committee on a new procedure for monitoring school bullying across Scottish local authority areas. This includes new Supplementary Guidance on the Recording and Monitoring of Bullying Incidents in Schools.
Report
Debate
The Parliament debated the findings and recommendations of the Committee's report on Wednesday 15 November 2017. The Official Report Transcript and Video Log of the debate are available to view here-
Chamber Debate 15 November 2017 - Official Report Transcript
Chamber Debate 15 November 2017 - Video Log