Mr Harvey has supplied additional papers that have been handed round.As committee members will be aware, the Executive is taking a hard line on bullying in schools and has introduced a number of measures that are aimed at tackling it, including monitoring how local authorities are implementing the recommendations of the discipline task force's report on bullying and indiscipline and providing funding for the anti-bullying network, the Scottish schools ethos network and the ChildLine anti-bullying helpline.The previous committee considered two petitions—PE81 and PE412—on bullying in schools and agreed to take no further action, on the basis that the Executive was tackling the problem through a number of initiatives.