This toolkit aims to help NEU members take the steps needed to prevent sexism and sexual harassment.
What does a whole school approach to preventing sexism and sexual harassment look like? And how do we make it happen?
To properly address sexism and sexual harassment in schools, we need to address it across the school. To help ensure you are reaching all areas, the NEU has created this model looking at themes and threads across the school.
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Find out all about our whole school approach and how to get started.
Getting started guidance, part of the NEU toolkit for preventing sexism and sexual harassment in schools.
This toolkit includes five themes and five threads which you can explore:
Changing culture takes time, it’s a marathon not a sprint! Change takes years, not one term or school year, and the NEU toolkit allows you to pick out the most useful first steps you want to take for your school. It also allows you to plan for the longer term.
All schools are starting from a different point, and we advise collective discussion and reflection as a staff group to identify first or next steps, given your context and community. This toolkit is designed for you and colleagues to select what’s useful and to adapt the content, and for you to pick and choose the elements and tools you want to use.
Know your rights, you have a right to be safe at work and to work free from sexist comments, sexual harassment and abuse.
Know your rights, you have a right to be safe at work and to work free from sexist comments, sexual harassment and abuse.
Use these top tips and model clauses to build your own school policies. Start conversations that will inform the content of your school policy.
Taking a whole-school approach to developing a sense of community responsibility to prevent sexism and sexual harassment.
Tackling misogyny, from banter to Andrew Tate, requires including boys and young men as part of the solution.
How do you approach preventing sexism in schools? How should you work with colleagues and students? Hear about Charlotte’s example of training the whole school staff team and meaningfully engaging students in a variety of activities.
Hear from Annie about her ‘Schools Against Sexism’ approach and how she set up active engaging student groups and supported her colleagues to take up an action learning group to address sexual harassment as part of their CPD.
A whole school approach to preventing sexism and sexual harassment.
This school pledges to prevent sexism and sexual harassment.
It's Not OK Poster for schools, who can add information about school’s support services at the bottom.
National Education Union research found that sexism and sexual harassment in schools has been normalised and is rarely reported.
NEU and Ofsted research on sexism.
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