NSW schools: anti-bullying policy in line with the national framework by Term 1 2027

The whole-school approach your staff can run

Start with a $20 practice review that tells your leadership team where your school stands. Then, if you want it, the full program: the teaching and learning resources, the term planner, and the audit tool that helps you draft your anti-bullying policy. Built on more than 25 years of Australian research.

25+ years of research 23 studies since 1999 40,000+ Australian children studied ~3,000 Australian schools

Start Map the Gap · $20 → See what is included

If any of this is true at your school, you are the reason we built it

Several things running at onceYou have a wellbeing program, a behaviour framework and a few good initiatives. None of them quite join up, and nobody can say which one is doing the work.

It depends on one personOne committed staff member holds it together. When they take long service leave, it stops.

The policy is not what happensThere is an anti-bullying policy. It was written some years ago, and it does not describe what your staff do on a Tuesday.

None of that means your school is doing badly. It means the work is not joined up yet.

Two ways in

Two products. Start with either.

Map the Gap

$20one-off, including GST

A whole-school staff practice review. Your wellbeing leader creates the account, sends staff an anonymous link, and gets back a leadership-ready report showing where your school is strong and where the opportunities are.

One person logs in. Your staff never need an account, a password, or any training to take part.

Your results and your priorities carry straight into the full program if you go on. Nothing is re-done.

The full program

$3,000 to $7,000a year, by student enrolment, including GST

Everything in Map the Gap, plus the teaching and learning resources for every year level, the term planner, and the audit tool for your anti-bullying policy and your evidence.

Your teachers get their own accounts and their own view of the platform.

Priced per school, not per student.

How it works

Eight components, grouped into six areas

Your school is reviewed across all eight. The resources, the planner and the audit tool are indexed to the same six areas, so you can go from a flagged area straight to the material for it. Coverage is deepest in Key Understandings and Competencies, and we are building out the other areas.

Building CapacitySupportive School Culture Proactive Policies and PracticesKey Understandings and Competencies Protective Physical EnvironmentSchool-Family-Community Partnerships

A six-sided chart showing one school scored across the six areas: Building Capacity 5.4, Supportive School Culture 5.0, School-Family Community Partnerships 4.0, Proactive Policies and Practices 3.0, Key Understandings and Competencies 3.0, Protective Physical Environment 2.0, each out of 6 — One school's review, the six areas scored out of 6

1. Review

Your staff score your school's current practice, anonymously. You get back your strengths first, then your areas of opportunity, ranked.

2. Act

The teaching and learning resources, the term planner and the whole-school toolkits, matched to the areas the review surfaced.

3. Show it

The Leadership Report for your executive, and the audit tool's evidence export for anyone reviewing your school.

4. Support, if you want it

Additional support is offered in person or virtually, and a complimentary exploration session is available. Tell us what you need.

A four-stop timeline. Weeks 1 to 4, find out where you stand, run by the wellbeing leader. Term 1, two or three visible things, run by a wellbeing team of 3 to 6, one to two lessons a term for each class. Terms 2 to 3, the structural work, an afternoon to a policy draft. Years 2 to 3 and beyond, it stops being a program, three short lessons per key area per year.

Four role cards. Your principal sponsors it, four moments a year. Your wellbeing lead runs it, 0.1 to 0.2 FTE, half a day a week protected. Your teachers teach it, one to two lessons a term per class. Your families are brought in with communication sheets and a booklet that are ready to send.

Inside the platform

The product your school opens every week

The review dashboard showing a school average of 3.7 out of 6, first assessment progress, and 3 of 6 priority areas from 5 staff responses — What a wellbeing leader sees when the responses are in

Strengths first, then the work

Your results open on what your school already does well, because that is the foundation the next piece of work stands on. Then the areas of opportunity, ranked, so your team takes on two or three rather than all six.

Anonymous, and it stays that way

Staff answer through a link with no account and no password. Every response is stored against the same anonymous marker, and exports render every respondent as "Anonymous". Even the wellbeing leader cannot see who said what.

Watch: what Map the Gap is · 1:26

Cover page of a sample Friendly Schools Leadership Report

See it before you buy

Read a full Leadership Report

The whole-school average, all six areas ranked, the areas of school life underneath them, what your staff say you already do well, and the priorities worth taking on first with a concrete step for each.

Cormorant Bay Primary School is fictional and every number in it is invented, so you can read the whole thing without anyone's real school data being involved. It is an illustration of the shape and depth of a report, not a copy of any school's.

Download the sample report PDF · 10 pages

Watch: the Leadership Report · 0:54

The term planner

What a year of this looks like

The workload is small

Three to four short lessons a term for each class. That is the dose the research asks for: about three per key area across the year.

Teachers adapt freely

It is fidelity to the outcome that matters, not word-for-word delivery. The planner tracks what was planned and what was taught, never how closely anyone followed a script.

Included in the full program. On the $20 pilot you can see the planner and a filled example, and it opens properly when you upgrade.

Watch: from priorities to a term plan · 1:37

The audit tool

Your anti-bullying policy, and the evidence behind it

The National Framework for Addressing Bullying in Australian Schools was agreed by all Education Ministers in February 2026. It asks every school to embed it in policy and procedure, publish the policy where families can read it, and respond to a reported incident within about two school days.

One state has made it a deadline: NSW schools must have an anti-bullying policy in line with the framework by Term 1 2027. Every other school benefits from having theirs current.

The audit tool inside the platform: You already do the work. Now show it. With four figures: Term 1 2027 NSW policy deadline, 4 framework functions, 6 whole-school components, and 1 afternoon to a policy draft — The audit tool, as a wellbeing leader opens it

The what is changing panel: NSW schools must have an anti-bullying policy in line with the national framework by Term 1 2027, the framework asks schools to publish the policy where families can read it, and to respond to a reported incident within about two school days

We tell you where we do not help

Friendly Schools strengthens prevention and culture. Incident response stays with your school's existing process, and the tool says so on the screen rather than implying coverage you do not have.

Start with what you already do

Upload your current documents: your existing anti-bullying policy, your wellbeing policy, procedures, anything relevant. They are listed in your evidence export, so a reviewer can see what your school already has on file.

The required fields are required for a reason

They are the sentences only your school can write. An earlier version of this tool wrote them for you, and a policy that says things about your school nobody at the school ever said is worse than no policy at all. It becomes a red flag the moment a reviewer audits it against practice you do not have.

So the draft will not put words in your mouth. Anything you leave blank appears in the document as a visible field to complete, never as plausible filler.

Show the work when someone asks

Download the evidence export: a printable summary drawn from your school's own activity. Reviews run, areas addressed, and lessons taught by term. It reports only what has been recorded.

The first page of a downloaded anti-bullying policy draft, showing status Draft 1, four fields to complete, not yet adopted, and sections on purpose and scope, vision and values, what we mean by bullying, rights and responsibilities and preventing bullying — The draft your school downloads, on the day you fill it in

What it does not do. It does not make your school compliant, and no software can. It supports your readiness, it gives your leadership team a real draft to work from instead of a blank document, and it gives you the evidence in one place when someone asks for it. The precise rules and any review rubric are set by your framework and your state or sector.

The national mapping is live today. State and sector mappings, including NSW, are being confirmed with the research team, so a NSW school works to the national mapping in the meantime.

Part of the full program. The $20 pilot shows you the framework mapping. The audit, the policy draft and the evidence export open with the full program.

Watch: drafting your policy · 1:56

Watch: evidence for reviewers · 0:46

The resource library

Two kinds of resource, and they are genuinely different

For adults

Evidence for Practice, the whole-school guidebook, and 26 whole-school resources your leaders, your wider school community or your staff professional learning sessions can run. This is the part that changes how the school works, not just what happens in a classroom.

For classrooms

Student-led teaching and learning resources from Early Years through to Year 9. Open a lesson and you get what will be taught and how long it takes, the outcomes, the activities, the script for teachers who want one, discussion questions and reflections, and the teacher resources needed.

If a child discloses harm, the lesson surfaces the duty of care guidance for the teacher right there, on the page.

Inside a Friendly Schools lesson: what is in the module, how long it takes, who it is for, a differentiation note, an adapt it to your class panel, and a duty of care panel headed If a child tells you they are being harmed — Every lesson carries the duty of care guidance, on the page

On the $20 pilot you can browse every lesson and see what it covers; the lesson materials open with the full program. The whole-school resources, family communication sheets, the family booklet and the posters are yours on either plan.

Watch: the resource library · 2:20

A before and after comparison. Where most schools start: several initiatives not joined up, staff handling incidents differently, an old policy that does not match practice, work depending on one person, and evidence assembled from scratch. After three to four years: one framework everyone can see themselves in, a written response everyone follows, a current policy reviewed on a cycle, a named lead and a team of three to six, and evidence one export away.

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