Respectful Relationships Education: Violence Prevention And Respectful Relationships Education In Victorian Secondary Schools

This report is intended to advance violence prevention efforts in schools in Victoria and around Australia. The report is designed to achieve the following goals: • to map the violence prevention, intervention and respectful relationships programs that are currently running in Victorian government secondary schools • to identify and explore best practice in violence prevention, intervention and respectful relationships education in schools in Victoria and elsewhere • to inform the development and implementation of violence prevention and respectful relationships policy and programming in Victoria • to increase DEECD's ability to respond more effectively to queries from other government departments, the media and the general public regarding the role of schools in violence prevention and the promotion of respectful relationships. The report focuses in particular on the prevention of forms of violence that occur in intimate and family relationships, including physical or sexual violence, and on education programs that are designed to promote respectful gender relations and to address attitudes and behaviours that might be harassing, abusive or violent towards women and girls.