KiVa Anti-Bullying Programme:Training for Trainers

Training Date: 28th - 30th April 2015

at CEBEI offices in Bangor

Background to the KiVa school based anti-bullying programme

KiVa is a strongly evidence based, comprehensive, programme that was funded by the Finnish Ministry of Education and developed and researched at the University of Turku, Finland. It includes an annual child on-line survey, whole school activities and materials, class lessons, online games for children, a parent’s website, and materials for a parent’s evening. It also has a structured intervention for use by a school-based KiVa Team in dealing with accepted referrals of bullying.

Results from a large randomized controlled trial (RCT) in Finland showed that 98% of bullying incidents stopped completely or were reduced and children’s reported levels of bullying and victimisation have reduced year on year in KiVa schools. The programme has now been rolled out across Finland with Finnish Government funding and 90% of Finnish schools are now using it.

For further information on KiVa see

KiVa in the UK

In 2012/3 we ran a pilot trial of KiVa with Year 5/6 children in fourteen Welsh and three Cheshire schools with good results. We are now researching the programme in an RCT with all KS2 pupils in twenty primary schools across Wales, with our partners the Dartington Social Research Unit This two-year project has BIG Lottery Innovation funding and involves all KS2 pupils in twenty primary schools from across Wales. Preliminary results are expected later this year but the programme has been enthusiastically received by the participating schools and highlighted in a Welsh Government Estyn Inspection report on how schools are dealing with bullying. As a result of our experience of training the research schools and following attendance at a trainer workshop in Finland, we are currently the only licensed training Centre in the UK and are offering training for trainers who will then train local schools and direct training for schools.

For further information about KiVa activities in Wales view the Centre’s website:

KiVa training for trainers

From 28th – 30thApril 2015, subject to sufficient interest, we will run our first training the trainer workshop at Bangor. This will be a three-day certified training that will license participants to train school-based staff. The training fee will include a copy of the Unit 1 and Unit 2 KiVa manuals, for KS2 pupils, plus other KiVa resources and a trainer manual to support delivery of training to schools. This training is primarily intended for Local Authority sponsored trainers such as special schools advisers, educational psychologists or representatives of other organisations with a strong interest in bullying prevention, such as Healthy Schools coordinators, etc.

KiVa trainers can train and support schools in KiVa delivery within their areas. Ongoing support for the trainers will be provided from our Centre in Bangor. The three day training plus materials will cost £1000 + VAT and the trainer’s representatives must also pay a £1,000 +VAT license fee to KiVa Finland, for the right to use this material as a trainer. This license will be renewed every two years and renewal is likely to involve an online update and a small renewal of license fee.

For further information about this training and the subsequent cost to schools of purchasing materials and registering as a KiVa school please contact Elin Williams, KiVa administrator at the address below.

Registration Form

For interest in KiVa Anti-bullying Programme trainer training during 2015

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