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Be a Buddy, says Journal

The Newcastle Journal has launched a five-month campaign to stamp out bullying.

The paper has joined forces with the region’s education chiefs to ask schoolchildren in Years 5 to 8 to help its campaign and Be a Buddy not a Bully.

Research has shown that one-third of the North East’s 450,000 schoolchildren are bullied at some point during their time in education.

And in the last year alone, more than 50 children from the region have admitted trying to take their own lives after being bullied.

The Journal has called on children to sign a pledge not to bully their school friends and will highlight the consequences of bullying.

Forms are being sent out to all schools in the region and the Journal wants every child to sign the pledge not to bully.

It aims to have 60,000 children signed up before the end of July.

At the same time, the paper will highlight some of the anti-bullying schemes that are already being run in schools across the North East.

  • Among those backing the Journal campaign are Tony Blair, Newcastle United footballers Kieron Dyer and Carl Cort, and Education Secretary Estelle Morris.

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