Violence Against Women and Girls Prevention Programme

We know that supporting children and young people to develop the skills and understanding they need to build healthy and respectful relationships is an important early step to preventing the emergence of harmful behaviours in relationships - including physical, emotional and sexual abuse in relationships, coercive or controlling behaviour, harassment and exploitation, including online and technology-facilitated abuse. 

This is why the Department for Education and the Home Office have partnered with YEF to launch this funding round. We are seeking to fund interventions and generate robust evidence on how secondary schools can best be supported to deliver healthy relationships content, improve young people’s knowledge and attitudes towards healthy relationships and harmful behaviours, and ultimately reduce violence against women and girls. This aligns with both Pillar 1: Prevention and early intervention in cross-government strategy on VAWG, and the Department of Education’s roll out of revised statutory Relationships, Sex and Health Education (RSHE) curriculum in September 2026.

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