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Mike Berry
10 August 2009
The National Bullying Helpline has said it will continue to spearhead anti-bullying awareness campaigns following the closure of fellow charity The Andrea Adams Trust due to lack of funding.
The Andrea Adams Trust shut last month after its funding arrangements became unsustainable. The trust said it was forced to scrap a £65,000-a-year national awarness campaign to ban bullying at work after some of the UK's largest companies ignored pleas to provide funding.
But The National Bullying Helpline charity insisted National Ban Bullying day on 7 November and National Ban Bullying week commencing 16 November, would proceed.
Christine Pratt, chief executive and founder of The National Bullying Helpline, said: "Just because The Andrea Adams Trust has failed to secure funding does not mean this is an end to the national ban bullying campaigns across the UK in November each year - in memory of the late Andrea Adams and the late Tim Field who were the first two pioneers who campaigned against workplace bullying."
3 comments:
Anti-Bullying Week (November 16, 2009) has been run by the government funded Anti-Bullying Alliance for the last six or seven years. That's government funded and not run by the National Bullying Helpline. There are lots of long established anti-bullying charities in the UK which have been doing great work for years, not sure why Christine Pratt thinks it's all down to her relatively new organisation to "spearhead" events which have been successful for years.
The events may have been "successful
for years", but the ending of workplace bullying has been a complete failure. There is virtually NO redress for victims, and this is largely because most anti-bullying organisations make the fatal mistake of thinking the employers support the eradication of the bullying. Particularly in the Public Sector, bullying is used as a management tool, and it is hell's own job to get any action whatsoever taken against the bullies themselves. They are far more likely to be promoted than punished. This scenario is now an absolute disgrace, and an affront to what we now euphamistically call a democracy and a free country.
THE LAW SIMPLY MUST BE THOROUGHLY STRENGTHENED IF WE WISH TO CONTINUE TO HOLD OURSELVES UP AS A CIVILISED PLACE FOR PEOPLE TO EARN THEIR LIVING IN.
If anyone wishes to tell their horror stories of life in the current British workplace, please e-mail me, and you will be assisting my attempts to bring this vivious behaviour much more strongly into the public domain.
John Gent.
You didn't give your email address, John.
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