A champion can be an individual or organisation identified
by respectme, or nominated by a third party, as proactively making a difference
to the lives of children and young people.
This may include ensuring that all children and young people have a safe
and secure environment, implementing and monitoring an effective anti-bullying
policy or by influencing policy and legislation that affects the rights of
children and young people at a national level.
- What does
being a champion involve?
respectme champions will be responsible for promoting the
aims and visions of respectme at local level across Scotland. Respectme will build the capacity of
champions though on-going support and training, enabling them to provide advice
and support to organisations who work with children and young people to promote
anti-bullying initiatives. The role is about
educating adults about their responsibilities to ensuring a safe and secure
environment for children and young people in all settings. As a measure of this, we anticipate that the
work of respectme at a national level, combined with the work of our champions
at a local level, will lead to an increase in the incidence of reported
bullying among children and young people in the short-term.
- Who can
become a champion?
Any individual or organisation that will stand out through
their commitment to protecting the rights and safety of children and young
people can become a champion. This may
be a teacher within a school who actively promotes and gets involved in
anti-bullying initiatives, the local lollipop lady who intervenes when children
are picking on another member of their group, or staff from the local newsagent
who monitors the behaviour of children and young people in his/her shop and
steps in when they see bullying behaviours taking place.
- How can
champions help me at a local level?
All respectme champions can assist organisations at a local
level by delivering training and workshops on anti-bullying policy and
implementation and by offering advice and guidance to bullying-related issues. Our champions will also feedback to us to
highlight any issues at local level and will take part in focus groups, etc, to
inform the national perspective on bullying issues.
To find out if there is a champion in your local area, contact
us .
- How do I
become a champion?
We will be actively identifying champions from the work we
do with people in a variety of settings which involve children and young people:
schools, youth groups, residential care homes, sports clubs, etc. It will take us quite a while to identify
everyone who is doing good work across Scotland, so if you think your
organisation, or the role you play within it, makes you a suitable candidate
then we'd be delighted to hear from you.
Similarly, if you feel that someone in your local community
has the qualities to become a champion, you can nominate them. To help you do this,
we've compiled a list of criteria; the qualities that we're looking for in our
champions.
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