Submitted on Sunday 14th March 2021
Rejected on Wednesday 28th April 2021
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Improve support & education on assault, consent & harassment in secondary school
Review the national curriculum with the aim of improving access to information for children on the issues of misogyny, sexism & inequality. Mandate better education on assault, consent & harassment to schools due to a lack of support & information given. For example, creating student advocates.
Almost every girl I know, including myself, has experienced assault or harassment. Criminal behaviour is not recognised as such and is often brushed off, victim blaming is endemic. Girls do not know how or when to report assault due to a lack of information and perpetrators are not brought to account for their actions. Children should learn about how to support, protect and be allies to women ,ensuring that as they become adults the cycles of the past can be broken.
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The Government's new Relationships and Sex Education curriculum, which is mandatory in all state schools from this year, requires that students are now taught about key aspects of the law relating to sex, which include the age of consent, what consent is and is not, the definitions and recognition of rape, sexual assault and harassment, and that sexual violence and sexual harassment are not acceptable: www.gov.uk/government/publications/relationships-education-relationships-and-sex-education-rse-and-health-education/relationships-and-sex-education-rse-secondary
We have published the following petition, which you might like to sign:
Increase the amount of content on sexism in the PSHE national curriculum: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/579416
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