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Resources on Mental Health for School Students and Staff

The department for Education has updated its list of resources for school students, parents, carers and staff to help with the mental health impacts of the pandemic and lockdowns. It
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RSE Implementation

In less than a month, schools will be required to begin rolling out government mandated relationships and sex education classes. Click here to read the Government’s post about implementation. Three
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Relationship & Sex Education and Home-schooling

In the current climate, many families are having to home-school their children, often for the first time. This can feel like a daunting task but luckily there are many resources
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Why Young Women Think RSE is Important

As we re-launch this platform with updated content to help schools prepare for mandatory Relationships and Sex Education, we feel it is important to ensure young people’s voices and experiences
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Tackling Harmful Sexual Behaviours in Schools

The International Center: Researching Child Sexual Exploitation, Violence and Trafficking (University of Bedfordshire) have launched a series of resources to help schools respond to harmful sexual behaviours (HSB). The resources
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Disrespect Nobody – Home Office Campaign on Teen Relationship Abuse

  Since 2010, the Home Office has run an annual campaign to raise awareness about abuse in teenage relationships. This year’s campaign has just launched and you can find all
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Good News! Government Announces Compulsory Relationships & Sex Education in All Schools

Last weeks blog was all about the call for SRE to be made mandatory in schools. This week the government responded and announced that it would be compulsory in all schools.
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Calls for Sex Education in All Schools

An open letter to Education Secretary Justine Greening, co-signed by MPs from across parties and leading charities was delivered this week. The letter (which you can read here) makes the case for new
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Gender Based Violence and Youth Participation – AVA Conference & Toolkit!

On July 5th, AVA held a conference our work on gender based violence and youth participation. This event celebrated the last three years of Big Lottery funded work with our