A mum called in police after a pupil was so badly bullied at school she needed hospital treatment.

Debbie Moore claims she was forced to take her 14-year-old daughter Fay to Bradford Royal Infirmary after she was left with a bleeding lip in an incident at Immanuel CE Community School.

The Thackley school suspended one of the girls involved who was understood to have been cautioned by the police.

But Mrs Moore, whose daughter has a blood clotting disorder, believes the school should be taking tougher measures to prevent bullying.

Mrs Moore, of Ravenscliffe Avenue, applied for a place for Fay after she moved from Cleckheaton to live with her mum in Bradford.

"Since she has been at the school, she has spent more time at home than at school because she is being bullied. I have had to involve the police on two occasions and she has been hospitalised when she was punched in the face by another girl

"She has been attacked physically and had all sorts of injuries. She has had black eyes, bust noses and her hair was pulled out at one point."

Mrs Moore, 32, said she received a call from the school the first time her daughter was bullied. "I said if they couldn't resolve it, I would call the police and so I did," she said.

"Those involved were cautioned by the police.

"I am appalled at the amount of time she has missed and the fact that nobody from the education department has been in touch, she must have missed 70 per cent."

Heather Lawson, of Falkland Road, whose daughter Isobel, 13, is a friend of Fay's, said: "I want the bullying to stop. Isobel was trying to help and is also being bullied now."

Alan Hall, Head teacher of Immanuel College, said the school has a highly developed anti-bullying strategy co-ordinated by assistant head teacher John Holland.

"If there has been circumstances of physical attack and bullying we would have dealt with it and treated it very seriously."

John Holland, who co-ordinates the anti-bullying programme, said a dedicated teacher had been appointed to work closely with Fay and her friend to resolve the matter.

"Fay has been a victim of a certain degree of unhappiness and bullying since she started at the school. And the school is very aware of this so both girls - Fay and her friend Isobel - have been put onto our anti-bullying programme.

"There was a girl guilty of assaulting her and it became a police matter. The girl was excluded for the maximum length of 15 days which is the maximum fixed term exclusion.

"Every one of our pupils has a right to feel happy and enjoy school life and our strategy aims to stop victims from feeling uncomfortable."