If yes, how satisfied were you with how the school dealt with the situation?
57 % 40 %
All parents
|
40 % |
Parents who say behaviour management at child’ s school is not strict |
57 % |
68 %
Parents who say behaviour management at child’ s school is strict
|
29 % |
Satisfied
Not satisfied
Sample: 5,866 parents in England( 3,391), Scotland( 1,309), Wales( 865) and Northern Ireland( 301) who have at least one child aged 4 to 18 in school. Base: All UK parents, weighted
• Parents of children with special educational needs are twice as likely to say their child has been bullied in the last year compared to parents of children who do not have special educational needs( 32 % vs 16 %)
• Parents in North East England are twice as likely than parents in London( 28 % vs 14 %) to say their child has been bullied
• Parents who say their child’ s school is strict are less likely to say their child has been bullied( 18 % strict vs 27 % not strict) and are generally happier with how incidents of bullying have been handled( 68 % strict vs 40 % not strict)
880,000 parents are unhappy with how their child ' s school dealt with bullying
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50 THE NATIONAL PARENT SURVEY 2025