More attention cyberbullying, but figures are equal

17-08-2015 22:15

Although there is an increasing focus on cyberbullying, the figures are about cyberbullying among young people barely changed for the third consecutive year. According to figures from the Central Bureau for Statistics (CBS).

Cyberbullies
In 2014 got up to 11 percent of fifteen to eighteen year olds with cyberbullying. The figures for 2012 (10.3 percent) and 2013 (12.5 per cent) are slightly different to that of 2014, but because the outcome may be different, it comes to about the same thing, said a spokesman for the CBS.

Of young people between fifteen to 25 years was 8 per cent last year to cyberbullying. Among all Dutch fifteen years and older is 3 percent. In the study of CBS said 400,000 people they are sometimes confronted with bullies on the Internet.

TACKLING BULLYING
Secretary Sander Dekker of Education made last year by primary schools and in secondary education agreements on tackling bullying. Schools are required to monitor or bullied and if so, to do something about it. The inspectorate oversees it. The agreements not only about bullying in the classroom, but also emphatically about bullying, for example social media.

,, Fact it's about everything reasonably within reach of the school, '' said Minister Dekker last year. ,, Not only in the classroom is being bullied, but the problem is often drawn in the classroom. '' The agreements go into the new school.

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