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Preventing sexism & sexual harassment

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

Getting started

Find out all about our whole school approach and how to get started.

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. 

Resources to read and share

Know your rights, you have a right to be safe at work and to work free from sexist comments, sexual harassment and abuse.

Videos

Play video Feminism in Schools with Charlotte Carson video

It's Not OK Chatcast: Feminism in Schools with Charlotte Carson

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.

Play video Sexism in Schools with Annie Morgan video

It's Not OK Chatcast: Sexism in Schools with Annie Morgan

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.

Posters

It's not OK pledge postcard

Join the campaign

Sign up to the campaign with this pledge postcard.

Download the postcard

Send us your stories

Report your positive stories to us so we can share your great work:

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