More school-aged children have reported being cyberbullied compared to before the Covid-19 pandemic, a survey suggests.

Nearly one in six adolescents have experienced cyberbullying, an international study has found.

More school-aged children have reported being cyberbullied compared to before the Covid-19 pandemic, according to a report by the World Health Organisation (WHO) Regional Office for Europe.

A study, which looked at bullying among adolescents from 44 countries and regions, including England, Wales and Scotland, found 15% reported being cyberbullied at least once or twice in the past couple of months.

The Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) survey, of more than 279,000 people aged 11, 13 and 15 years old in 2021/22, suggests the proportion of adolescents who reported being cyberbullied has increased since 2018, from 12% to 15% for boys and 13% to 16% for girls.

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    8 months ago

    A girl doxxed my daughter over Discord and pranked called her multiple times (we’re still not sure how she got our address and her phone number). When we contacted thee school, they decided that meant that, because my daughter got rightfully pissed off about it, that they had to apologize to each other. Nothing else was done about it. It was one of the last steps before we pulled her out of there and put her in online school.