Submission of the New Zealand Human Rights Commission to the 18 th session of the Human Rights Council; New Zealand’s Second Universal Periodic Review. proceedings. At the time of writing the decision of the Tribunal had not been handed down. Education (art. 24) Bullying 66. In 2013 the government convened a cross-sector Bullying Prevention Advisory Group (“BPAG”). BPAG has produced a guide for schools to help prevent bullying and to provide practical advice on what to do when bullying occurs. The Commission is part of BPAG along with other accountability mechanisms such the Children’s Commissioner, Ombudsman and Education Review Office. The BPAG is currently developing an overall plan to prevent bullying. Suggestions that the plan focus only on disabled students and GLBTI student were rejected, at the Commission’s suggestion because in the Commission’s view changing the attitudes of non-disabled and non-GLBTI students was critical to improving inclusion of disabled and GLBTI students. It was agreed that there will be a focus on disabled and GLBTI students but the whole school culture needed to be addressed at the same time. 67. The Ministry of Education’s Positive Behaviour for Learning27 initiative represents a major step towards ensuring that New Zealand schools are safe, positive and inclusive. It moves away from seeing individual students as a “problem” and towards proactively changing the environment around them to support positive behaviour. However, less than half the schools in New Zealand are engaged in the initiative. Participation in cultural life, recreation, leisure and sport (art.30) Captioning 68. Captioned movie screening began in New Zealand in 2003. In addition funding for captioning on television has doubled in the last 10 years. However, despite these positive developments there remain very limited opportunities for blind, visually impaired, Deaf and hearing impaired people to consume television, cinema, DVDs, and the internet in accessible formats. 69. Currently 19 television channels have some level of captioning. However, a survey of free-to air television indicates that only 23 % of non-repeated programming is captioned.28 There clearly remains a need for a comprehensive approach to the accessibility of broadcasting. 27 http://www.minedu.govt.nz/NZEducation/EducationPolicies/SpecialEducation/OurWorkProgramme/PositiveB ehaviourForLearning/About.aspx 28 Captioning Working Group (2013) Captioning in New Zealand – A Breakdown in the Number of Captioning Hours over TV1, TV2 and TV3. Research conducted by the Captioning Working Group, November 2013. 16