United Kingdom

• Similar to the TeachUsConsent campaign in Australia, the Everyone’s Invited website features anonymous testimonies of young women and girls who were assaulted as adolescents by boys attending (named) independent schools. The issue of consent and relationships education has emerged as an aspect of this campaign.
• Additionally, the Headmasters’ and Headmistresses’ Conference (HMC) in the UK provides a legal advisory note  prepared for the UK Independent Schools’ Bursars Association and links to the Farrer & Co Peer on Peer Abuse Toolkit for reference. 
  

New Zealand

• NZ’s Ministry of Education guides to Relationships and Sexuality Education, developed for teachers, school leaders and school boards of trustees, cover Years 1-8 and Years 9-13.

• The federal Department of Education, Skills and Employment has funded a new online resource to support respectful relationships education in all Australian schools, called The Good Society. The site is part of the Australian Government’s Respect Matters program, and includes learning activities designed for specific age groups, as well as resources for teachers, parents and carers. 

• The NSW Government has launched a website, #makenodoubt, to promote the issue of consent amongst all age groups.

• Former AHISA member, Dr Tim Hawkes OAM, is a co-director of Truwell, which produces student and staff wellbeing resources for schools. Tim and Truwell partner Adam Weber are offering AHISA members free access to Truwell’s online course on sexual consent, which is suitable for students, parents and staff. The course features a discussion of consent, presented by Tim and segmented to cover various aspects of sexuality and relationships.  
• Talk Revolution is a new learning resource created to make it easier to open the dialogue around taboo topics in schools, in a way that teenagers can relate to. Presented by kids for kids, Talk Revolution is a series of eight video-based learning modules covering sensitive teenage ‘talks’: Sex Talk, Drug Talk, Alcohol Talk, Eating Disorder Talk, Gender Based Violence Talk, Sexuality Talk, Period Talk, and Suicide and Self Harm Talk. 

• Our Watch, which aims to prevent violence against women and children, released a briefing paper and related evidence report for policy makers to assist in designing, implementing, coordinating and monitoring evidence-based approaches to respectful relationships education.
  
  
  

• Raisingchildren.net.au have published articles on talking to children and young people about consent in an age-appropriate manner.
• Financial Review published an article by Steve Biddulph, author of Raising Boys, titled ‘Being rich can spell trouble when raising boys’.  Originally written for a British audience, the article offers advice to mothers and fathers on parenting adolescent boys. (26 March 2021)
• The Conversation published an article by Katy Thomas of the University of Tasmania on the importance of parental role modelling of respectful relationships. (26 March 2021)
  

List of resources for further reading, listening and viewing - 

1. EduResearch Matters blogs

• Six key components of a whole-school approach to respectful relationships education
• The importance  — and difficulties — of teaching empathy as part of consent education

2. Podcasts

• The Consent and Consequences podcast, with Brent Sanders and Byron Dempsey
• Understanding Boys Podcast, a series brought to listeners by Brighton Grammar School, an all-boys school in Melbourne lead by AHISA member Ross Featherston.

3. Webinars  

• The ‘porn literacy’ curriculum developed by Boston University for Boston Public Health Commission
• The Our Whole Lives (OWL) lifespan sexuality education curriculum developed in the USA for both secular and faith-based environments.

4. Resources by American researcher and author, Peggy Orenstein