NSPCC: Viewing Generative AI and children’s safety in the round
Children and young people are often the first to start using new technologies, including Generative (Gen) Artificial Intelligence (AI). Generative AI is a form of AI that produces (generates) new content, such as images and text. This report explores how Gen AI is impacting children’s safety and wellbeing online and offline.
The report can be downloaded from this page.
https://learning.nspcc.org.uk/research-resources/2025/generative-ai-childrens-safety
Sec Ed: Teaching Consent Effectively
Thoughts for school leaders and classroom teachers about how to deliver RSE lessons, particularly those vital lessons focusing on the issue of consent in sexual relationships (primary and secondary).
RSHE: Teaching consent effectively relationships sex education PSHE wellbeing safeguarding lesson resource
Sex Education Forum: Young people’s RSE poll 2024
A nationwide poll of young people’s experiences of Relationships and Sex Education in schools shows quality is improving, but a lack of consistent inclusivity drives many to online sources for information.
Young people’s RSE poll 2024 | sexeducationforum.org.uk
Sex Education: Why is it so important to start teaching about consent and privacy with key stage 1 children?
The importance of tackling the concept of consent and what it means to be in a healthy relationship from the earliest of opportunities
Why is it so important to start teaching about consent and privacy with key stage 1 children? | sexeducationforum.org.uk
Women’s Aid: Influencers and attitudes: How will the next generation understand domestic abuse?
The purpose of this research was to ensure an evidence base for the design of education about relationships for children and young people, highlighting the positive influence that well structured Relationships, Sex and Health Education programmes can have and to ultimately investigate ‘what works well’.
Influencers and Attitudes Report – Women’s Aid
Family Planning Association: UK Online Child Sex Abuse and Sexual Harassment Statistics
Summary of statistics and research plus strategies for tackling sexual abuse and harassment.
UK Online Child Sex Abuse and Sexual Harassment Statistics
UK Feminista: ‘It’s just everywhere’. A study in sexism in schools – and how we tackle it
Research commissioned by UK Feminista and the National Education Union from the University of Warwick shows that sexism in schools is widespread. Over a third (37%) of girls at mixed-sex schools have been sexually harassed while at school.
Read our research – UK Feminista
NSPCC: Healthy and unhealthy relationships
How to recognise if something is wrong in a young person’s relationship and take appropriate action to keep them safe.
Healthy and unhealthy relationships | NSPCC Learning
NSPCC: Protecting children from harmful sexual behaviour
Information about how to recognise, respond to and prevent harmful sexual behaviour.
Harmful sexual behaviour (HSB) or peer-on-peer sexual abuse | NSPCC Learning
GOV.UK: Review of sexual abuse in schools and colleges
The review included visits to 32 schools and colleges. In these, the researches spoke to over 900 children and young people about the prevalence of peer-on-peer sexual harassment and sexual violence, including online, in their lives and the lives of their peers
Review of sexual abuse in schools and colleges – GOV.UK
GOV.UK: Teaching relationships education to prevent sexual abuse
This report presents the findings of a one-off rapid evidence assessment of the academic and grey literature on teaching relationships education to prevent sexual abuse
Teaching relationships education to prevent sexual abuse – GOV.UK
Let’s Tall About X: Why you should stop using the tea consent video to teach consent
Times have changed since 2015. While the Tea Consent video had its merits at the time, it is almost a decade old. So what actually are the issues with the Tea Consent video?
Why you should stop using the Tea Consent video to teach consent
Equaliteach: Six steps to tackling misogyny in schools
The recent rise in popularity of online figures and subcultures that promote misogyny present a very real threat to the safeguarding of young people. These influencers appeal most to teenage boys and men, with students up and down the UK celebrating them as role models.
Six tips for tackling misogyny in schools – EqualiTeach
Pearson: Tackling misogyny in schools
Five steps to tackling misogyny in schools. Has links to other associated topics such as identifying fake news and how to create an inclusive environment
Tackling misogyny in schools: a five-step guide
Safer Schools: Harmful Content – Andrew Tate
Information and advice to help parents, carers, and safeguarding professionals challenge harmful behaviour like misogyny, violence against women and minorities, and sexual misconduct online. Not just limited to Andrew Tate.
Harmful Content – Andrew Tate – Safer Schools NI
Bold Voices: Lessons learned from talking to young people about Andrew Tate in schools
Includes a blog and a link to a toolkit for challenging misogyny (‘How to talk to young people about Andrew Tate’).
How to talk to young people about Andrew Tate — Bold Voices
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