Respectful relationships education
Schools are mini communities that play a central role in teaching young people what gender-based violence looks like and how it can be prevented.
The change we need to prevent gender-based violence can be supported by schools taking a whole-of-school approach to respectful relationships education. Respectful relationships education is about taking a whole-of-school approach to primary prevention for the benefit of everyone in your school community.
Respectful relationships education is the holistic approach to the school-based, primary prevention of gender-based violence.
It uses the education system as a catalyst for generational and cultural change by engaging schools, as both education institutions and workplaces, to comprehensively address the drivers of gender-based violence and create a future free from violence.
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Just like other major social and health issues, such as smoking and drink driving, gender-based violence can be prevented by working across the whole population in many ways.
Respectful relationships education is about changing the attitudes, behaviours, norms, structures and practices that create the environment in which gender-based violence occurs.
What's a whole-of-school approach?
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This toolkit supports schools to plan and implement a whole-of-school approach to preventing gender-based violence.
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A comprehensive guide to leading and undertaking respectful relationships education in Australian schools, to prevent gender-based violence.
Final evaluation report of a pilot of respectful relationships education in primary schools in Victoria and Queensland.
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The Line campaign aims to help young people have healthy and respectful relationships.
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Planning tools to help schools record their current practice as well as opportunities for preventing gender-based violence.
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This free, full-day training is for people who are new to the primary prevention of violence against women sector.
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This 90-minute presentation provides a brief, high-level overview of Change the story.
20 Aug, 2025
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A session for early childhood educators and primary prevention practitioners to discuss the prevention of gender-based violence in early years settings.
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