Salisbury mother starts anti-bullying campaign

Ms McGinley Cook plans to distribute the leaflets to 50 schools in Wiltshire

A mother from Wiltshire has started an anti-bullying campaign following her daughter's experience at school.

Joleen McGinley Cook said her daughter Amber-Paige was bullied and had to move schools.

Ms McGinley Cook, from Salisbury, has now designed a leaflet aimed at victims, bullies and parents.

She said she planned to distribute the leaflets to 50 schools in Wiltshire. "If everyone worked together, it [bullying] could stop," she said.

Ms McGinley Cook said: "I felt that the parents of the children that were bullying also had a responsibility to help and to know what their kids were putting other kids through.

"The bullies in a sense are victims themselves because they don't become bullies just by being born that way.

"I put the leaflet together for everybody concerned because if everyone worked together, it could stop."