LCQ20: Prevention of bullying behaviour among minors
Source: Hong Kong Government special administrative region
LCQ20: Prevention of bullying behaviour among minors
Year (2) The EDB, the EOC, and the HKPF have not categorised the above cases by intention and motives. The doxxing complaint cases investigated by the PCPD involve relationship disputes and school disputes respectively.
(3) The Government adopts a zero-tolerance attitude towards bullying among minors. Various policy bureaux and departments have developed a holistic approach to jointly prevent and curb bullying at the levels of schools, community and criminal enforcement, while also promoting anti-bullying messages. The specific work is as follows:
Schools
A safe and harmonious school environment is crucial for the growth of minors. The EDB, the Social Welfare Department (SWD) and the HKPF have introduced a series of measures to assist schools in building a caring school culture and nurturing students’ proper values. They also help with the prevention, early identification and handling of school bullying, and provide students in need with support and mediation. The key measures are as follows:
(a) The EDB requires schools to adopt the Whole School Approach in formulating and implementing anti-bullying policies, and has provided schools with clear guidelines, listing in details the principles, procedures, methods and follow-up actions for handling school bullying incidents. At the same time, the EDB supports schools in implementing values education within and beyond the classroom, provides schools with resource packages and teaching materials on anti-bullying, and organises diversified student development programmes and activities. The EDB continues to organise various kinds of teacher professional training activities in an ongoing manner in order to enhance school personnel’s professional knowledge and capability of preventing and handling bullying in schools. The EDB also provides parents with various information through the one-stop parent education information website Smart Parent Net, helping parents acquire the knowledge and skills for nurturing their children positively. Since 2024, the EDB has been providing the “Harmonious School: One-Stop Hotline and Counselling Services”. Registered social workers provide advice, counselling and case referral services for students and parents through the hotline and instant messaging software, as well as on-site support services for schools in need.
(b) Starting from the 2019/20 school year, the SWD has put in place the measure of “two school social workers for each school” for over 460 secondary school across the territory in order to strengthen the provision of counselling and support services for students in need.
(c) The HKPF has launched the Youth Crime Prevention Booklet since 2022 to instill anti-crime awareness and proper values in young people. Teaching materials on anti-bullying are also produced to provide parents and educators with prevention and response strategies, so as to prevent young people from bullying others or becoming victims. Meanwhile, the HKPF has implemented the Police School Liaison Programme, through which it establishes a good relationship with the school community and promotes law-abiding awareness among students, thereby preventing young people from committing crimes and falling into traps. In addition, the HKPF launched the “One-stop Child Protection Web Application” (www.childprotection.gov.hk Community Criminal enforcement ConclusionIssued at HKT 14:51