Bystanders and upstanders (anti-bullying)

• Date: March 31, 2025
• Time: 10:00 – 11:00
• Cost: BSA Member Rate: £90, BSA Additional Full Member Fee: £45, Non-member Rate: £180*
• Audience: Deputy Head, Inclusion Lead, Head of Boarding, Teaching and Boarding staff
• Platform: Zoom (online) – webinar

Course outline:

Every child, and probably every adult, has been a bystander at some point in time. A bystander is someone who witnesses bullying but does not get involved. Being a bystander is easy – they aren’t the perpetrator and they are not the one outwardly being harmed or the target of the attack.

In every situation it’s necessary to have somebody who does something that prevents or reduces the bullying they see – an upstander. Upstanders are people who comes to the aid of another person who is being bullied and shows them kindness.

Moving from being a bystander to becoming an upstander will not happen overnight. This webinar will give you the tools needed to support your staff and pupils on their journey to becoming an upstander.

Training topics will include:

• Learning outcomes: Characteristics of a bystander
• What it means to be an upstander
• How to engage next time someone witnesses bullying and being their upstander.

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Speaker:

Jonathan Charlesworth M.Ed., Executive Director, Educational Action Challenging Homophobia (EACH)

Jonathan Charlesworth is a trainer, consultant and author with extensive knowledge and understanding of LGBT+ matters (including Helpline management) acquired across his thirty-nine years’ professional experience as a teacher and Executive Director of Educational Action Challenging Homophobia. He is an Expert Adviser included within the National Crime Agency’s database and for nine years chaired the Crown Prosecution Service’s Local Scrutiny Involvement Panel (Southwest). Commissioned regularly since 2000 to deliver training and consultancy to police forces across the UK and consult on LGBT+ matters for schools by the Crown Prosecution Service, Jonathan has also been commissioned multiple times by the Department for Education to generate guidance and create training for schools nationally. His training and consultancy work has been commissioned by the USA, Finland, Sweden and across the UK whilst his books on challenging homophobic and biphobic school bullying have sold throughout the world.