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<p>The Department for Education does not collect information on the number of people
with learning difficulties reported being bullied at school.</p><p>The Government
is clear that bullying, for whatever reason, is totally unacceptable. All schools
are required, by law, to have a behaviour policy with measures to address all forms
of bullying including that which occurs online. Schools have the freedom to shape
these measures in the context of their particular local circumstances and pupils'
needs. Schools are held closely to account by Ofsted for how well they deal with pupil
behaviour and safety, which includes bullying.</p><p>We are also providing £4 million
of funding over two years from spring 2013 to four organisations - Beatbullying, the
Diana Award, Kidscape and The Anti-bullying Alliance (ABA) with the National Children's
Bureau (NCB) - to develop effective initiatives that prevent and tackle all forms
of bullying.</p><p>As part of their funding, the ABA has recently published a guide
to cyberbullying for SEND young people, which contains advice for schools on developing
effective anti-bullying practice and we link to this report in our Departmental advice
on bullying.</p>
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