Section 4. Findings
Figure 28: Children here have not victimised me
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Only 33% of respondents said they would report it if they were being victimised by another
child.
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Our questionnaire lists a number of different ways in which children can be victimised by
their peers. Overall, verbal abuse was the most commonly reported type of victimisation by
other children (42%).
Figure 29: Types of victimisation by other children
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Analyses on sub-population data for types of victimisation by other children revealed that:
Verbal abuse (reported by 42% of children)
• Children from black and minority ethnic backgrounds were significantly less likely than
children from white backgrounds to report that they had been verbally abused by other
children (37% compared with 48%).
• A significantly higher proportion of respondents who said they had a disability reported
that they had been verbally abused by other children (57% compared with 38% of
children without a disability).
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