The National Framework is intended to provide a best practice framework for schools to build into the process and policies they already have established in the school. The National Framework provides the framework for all school systems and schools to establish shared national expectations and actions and provide confidence that no matter where a student goes to school, bullying behaviours, including harmful antecedent behaviours (referred to as bullying and other harmful behaviours) will be appropriately addressed and the school workforce supported to take appropriate action. The National Framework considers bullying to be within a continuum of harmful behaviours and negative interpersonal behaviours, whether physical or psychosocial, that are counter to creating a safe learning environment. The National Framework comprises interconnected principles-based elements which should be implemented together to effectively prevent and address bullying and other harmful behaviours.