Over recent months, a group of councillors and council officers have been working with young people, investigating cyber-bullying in schools to understand better what it is, how widespread it is and how we can better tackle it in Stockport.

The result is a report you can read in the Children and Young People’s agenda for July 2010.

There’s far more than I can put here, but cyber-bullying is a serious issue.  It can happen not just through PCs, but with young people accessing online services via mobile phones, Wiis and anything else with an internet connection.

Sometimes the young people don’t appreciate the effect their actions are having on the victims, and frequently parents don’t know what’s going on and don’t know how to deal with it when they do.

The report finished with several recommendations for the Council, schools and school governors.

The next stage is for this report to go to the Executive – the Council’s ruling body.  If agreed, it will start being put into practice.