In an update to its toolkit on serious youth violence, the Youth Endowment Fund (YEF), revealed that one in seven teenage children watched sexual violence being committed online last year and that one in 12 teenage girls were victims of sexual assault.
Meanwhile, a survey of 1,000 teenagers, carried out by the Sex Education Forum, finds that 28 per cent of those asked say they are not learning about how to tell if a relationship is healthy, including online relationships.
The YEF’s toolkit - which gives an overview of existing research on approaches to preventing serious youth violence – finds that teaching students about topics including attitudes associated with dating violence in relationships and sex education lessons (RSE) could decrease instances of violent crime involving young people by 17 per cent overall.
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