12 October 2010
According to a new report from the Equalities and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) two-thirds of young people claim to have been bullied at school, rising to four-fifths of those with special educational needs or disabilities. The report also drew attention to levels of homophobic bullying and bullying of transgender students. The findings are published in the chapter on Education in the first EHRC triennial review of fairness in Britain, and the statistics on bullying are drawn from the Youth Cohort Study, the Longitudinal Study of Young People in England, and other published research, as well as a specially commissioned survey of teachers which asked about bullying pf various groups and the support offered to these groups.