A QUEENSLAND child and adolescent psychiatrist has called for schools to have a bullying ranking displayed next to their maths and English results on the My School website.

Psychiatrist Dr James Scott said this would allow parents to gauge how proactive schools were at dealing with bullying.

But Warwick headspace acting manager Sophia McLucas said she could not see the process working.

"It would change over time and there would need to be research behind it," she said.

"All schools have policies in place to deal with bullying and parents are able to look at these."

Ms McLucas said bullying would always be present in the school yard.

"Bullying has been around for a long time, it is just that we are becoming more aware of the impact it can have," she said.

"But that does not mean we don't try to stop it.

"It is about education for everybody in the school and having the parents on the same page."

She said it was important parents went through the right process if their child was bullied while at school.

"They need to follow the chain of command," Ms McLucas said.

"Talk to the teachers and school and find out what can be done."

As for the level of bullying in Warwick schools, Ms McLucas said it fluctuated.

"I can't say that one school is better or worse than another," she said.

"It is a general issue that occurs at all schools."

Dr Scott said the ranking would be determined by asking the students to fill out a survey on whether or not they had been bullied in the past 90 days.

But Ms McLucas said in order for that to work there would have to be a clear definition of what bullying is.

"Bullying is ongoing, day to day, happening all the time," she said.

The Daily News asked their Facebook readers what they thought about the proposal to give schools a bullying ranking and we got a mixed reaction.

Like Ms McLucas, Todd Brown highlighted that bullying existed in every school.

"What is important is not if there is bullying, but how the school handles it," he said.

While Moira Coates said parents should be the ones filling out the survey, not the children.

"Building resilience in children for dealing with occasional name calling or rough and tumble is just as important as dealing with genuine instances of bullying," she said.

"Asking kids if they've been bullied will only result in misinformation."

WHO TO CALL

• Headspace: 4661 1999
• Kids helpline: 1800 55 1800