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<p>Schools play an important role in safeguarding children from all forms of abuse.
Our statutory guidance is clear that schools have an important role in identifying
children who may be suffering abuse, or at risk of abuse, and then take necessary
action, working with other services where appropriate. Schools also have an important
role in raising pupils’ awareness of these issues, thus helping pupils to keep themselves
safe.</p><br /><p>The Department for Education has produced statutory guidance for
schools, ‘Keeping Children Safe in Education’, which sets out the roles and responsibilities
of schools and their staff, and which contains links to more detailed advice on specific
forms of abuse, including domestic violence, teenage relationship abuse and forced
marriage.</p><br /><p>Schools can use relevant parts of the curriculum, including
sex and relationship education and personal, social, health and economic education
(PSHE), to raise pupils’ awareness. It is for schools to determine which issues they
address and how, and the Government’s statutory guidance on sex and relationship education
makes clear that schools should ensure that young people develop positive values and
a moral framework that will guide their decisions, judgements and behaviour. To complement
work done in schools, the Government’s ‘This is Abuse’ campaign has helped to educate
young people about damaging behaviours within relationships.</p>
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