The Real Project

A full day of teaching 360+ pupils at Cheam High School today 👩🏻‍🏫

It is so easy for young people to think anything to do with the law, domestic or s*xual abuse and digital offences will never be something that impacts them… until it does‼️

As well as teaching the law on emotional abuse, image-based abuse, s*xual offences, harassment & stalking and physical offences, I used case studies to illustrate why learning this content is so important.

Today, we looked at the following stories:
- my own discussing s*xual assault and image-based abuse (check my pinned video for more info on this!)
- ‘s when she was a victim of image based abuse
- Dinal de Alwis who was a victim of s*xtortion
- Angel Lynn who was a victim of emotional and physical abuse.
- an anonymised case study from when I worked in the police illustrating the escalation of harassment and stalking.

Is there anything more worth while than ensuring young people are better educated (with potentially life saving information) at the end of your session than when they first came in?

Thank you for a very warm welcome and very inquisitive and well behaved y9s!

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Thanks for all the support!

⚪️ After months of hard work (whilst still working our full-time jobs), we have finally started doing what is so important to us: educating young people on the law surrounding relationships and s*x using our previous policing and teacher careers.

🟣 Learning about s*x/relationships from p**n and the media + lack of relationship and s*x education/understanding of the law = s*xual and domestic violence epidemic.

We are here to break this cycle for both perpetrators and victims.

🟢 Domestic abuse does not discriminate. It really can happen to anyone. That is why we are so passionate about making sure everyone knows their rights and where they can access support should they need it - something we didn’t have growing up.

Please reach out if you want any further info! (Website in bio)

Why do we need to educate young people on the law surrounding relationships and s*x? This is why.

For us at The Real Project, we want to break this cycle. We know we can’t stop young people watching p**n or change the s*xist and harmful themes within the media, but we can provide comprehensive relationship and s*x education (RSE) empowering young people to know what is legal and illegal and where to get help if they need it.

Understanding the law helps provides you with confidence to stand up for yourself, call out wrong behaviour and get support. Having an incredibly vague (or sometimes non existent) understanding of your rights and the law leads to huge underreporting, a s*xist culture and young people being victims (or even perpetrators) of offences and not even knowing it.

Help us break this cycle by sharing what we do with others so we can spread these vital messages far and wide!

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The fact these statistics (and many, MANY more) are all published and available to the powers that be and RSE is still not compulsory between ages 16-18 years and even when it is delivered, the quality is often poor and basic, is nothing short of horrendous.

is a fantastic campaign fighting for RSE to be mandatory for sixth-form and college students. Their petition is at parliament and they are carrying out such important work!

How many more reviews, surveys and reports need to be published before this will be taken seriously?

FYI for further info and facts surrounding these issues:
- Children’s Commissioner’s Report 2023
- S*x Education Forum Survey results 2021 and 2022
- - Revolt S*xual Assault (a campaign highlighting University s*xual violence and harassment)
- - Everyone’s Invited (a campaign highlighting school s*xual violence and harassment)

Just reading the young people’s testimonies and experiences as well as the harrowing facts to back them up really shines a light on how much of an epidemic this is.

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