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<p>The Government is committed to delivering the Strategy published in March. The
table below shows the progress made in delivering the actions allocated to the Department
for Education (DfE) or the Government Equalities Office (GEO).</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>REF</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>DfE/
GEO</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>ACTION</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>PROGRESS</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>GEO</p></td><td><p>Develop
new guidance in consultation with teachers for PHSE lessons specifically about gender
equality (Apr 2016).</p></td><td><p>GEO has been working with the PSHE Association
to consult teachers on how best to deliver this commitment.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>GEO</p></td><td><p>Fund
the Freedom Charity to expand the ‘Train the Trainers’ project…. (Apr 2016).</p></td><td><p>GEO
funded the Freedom Charity to expand their ‘Train the Trainers’ project to reach a
greater number of communities and empower teachers to deal with the topic of forced
marriage sensitively and confidently. This funding enabled an additional 3,620 students
and 1,230 staff to learn about forced marriage with Freedom.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>DfE</p></td><td><p>Publish
a consultation report on updated statutory safeguarding guidance for schools, <em>Keeping
Children Safe in Education, </em>to come into force in September 2016 (May 2016).</p></td><td><p>DfE
published the Government response to the consultation in May, and published a draft
of the revised guidance for information at that time. The guidance came into force
on 5 September 2016.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>5</p></td><td><p>HO/ GEO</p></td><td><p>Launch
the second phase of the national prevention campaign to challenge abuse in teenage
relationships and promote understanding of health relationships and consent – including
among LGB&T teenagers (Feb 2016).</p></td><td><p>GEO, in partnership with the
Home Office, launched <em>Disrespect Nobody</em>, the second phase of the national
prevention campaign to challenge abuse in teenage relationships. This included a TV
advert, along with a dedicated website, blogs and guidance for teachers.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>6</p></td><td><p>DfE</p></td><td><p>Launch
a communications campaign to encourage the public to report all forms of child abuse
to help address people’s fear of reporting (Mar – autumn 2016).</p></td><td><p>In
March 2016 DfE launched the national <em>Together we can tackle child abuse</em> campaign
to encourage members of the public to report any concerns they may have about a child,
in particular about suspected child abuse and neglect. Over 100 councils have engaged
with the campaign so far, and our findings indicate that it is giving people a sense
of confidence to report their suspicions. We know it takes time to change opinions
and behaviours, which is why we plan to run the campaign again in 2017.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>8</p></td><td><p>GEO</p></td><td><p>Update
Media Smart resources (with the Advertising Association) to help teachers and parents
improve primary school children’s understanding of how gender is represented in the
media and their resilience to negative content (Sep 2016).</p></td><td><p>GEO commissioned
the charity Media Smart to develop a new resource to help teachers and parents improve
primary school children’s understanding of how gender is represented in the media
and their resilience to negative content. The resource was published in August 2016
and will be disseminated to schools this term.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>10</p></td><td><p>GEO</p></td><td><p>Conduct
or commission mapping of the evidence base and initiatives that engage men, boys and
bystanders in VAWG prevention to identify how Government can build on these initiatives
to further social change (Apr 2017).</p></td><td><p>GEO is currently mapping the evidence
base and initiatives that engage men, boys and bystanders in VAWG prevention, as well
as meeting with stakeholders working in this area.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>18</p></td><td><p>DfE</p></td><td><p>Raise
standards in social work and overhaul social work education and practice to improve
the recruitment, retention and development of social workers under-pinned by a new
regulator…. (all social workers assessed and accredited by 2020).</p></td><td><p>DfE
is continuing to develop our plans for the assessment and accreditation of child and
family social workers and will consult this autumn. We expect the first social workers
will begin assessment in spring 2017. The Children and Social Work Bill includes provision
to establish a new regulator for social workers.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>19</p></td><td><p>DfE</p></td><td><p>Establish
a What Works Centre, with up to £20m of funding, which will be an evidence-based resource
to support social workers and work alongside the Chief Social Worker (by end 2016).</p></td><td><p>It
is expected that the What Works Centre for Children’s Social Care will be established
in 2017 – we are currently considering options for the model and set-up process and
carried out early market engagement in June/July 2016 to inform our thinking.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>28</p></td><td><p>GEO/
HO</p></td><td><p>Establish an official Government working group to map out current
issues, prevalence, initiatives and barriers to addressing gendered online abuse to
improve understanding and coordinate the response to online manifestations of VAWG
(Dec 2016).</p></td><td><p>In partnership with the Home Office, GEO has established
an official Government working group to do this. This work is ongoing.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>30</p></td><td><p>GEO</p></td><td><p>Continue
to ensure victims of revenge pornography have access to bespoke support and advice
about their right to have the images removed from websites (review Apr 2017).</p></td><td><p>GEO
has funded the Revenge Porn Helpline for a further year to continue its important
work supporting victims of revenge porn and working to have such images removed from
websites.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>68</p></td><td><p>DfE</p></td><td><p>Carry out an
urgent review of Local Safeguarding Children Boards and take forward plans to centralise
serious case reviews so that lessons from serious incidents can be learned more quickly
and effectively (review completed by Mar 2016).</p></td><td><p>The review was completed
in March 2016 and published in May 2016. Provisions to cover the key recommendations
on LSCBs and reviews are included in the Children and Social Work Bill.</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>
</p><p>Department officials are in regular contact with their Home Office counterparts
to discuss relevant policy issues, including those raised by stakeholders. Such discussions
run alongside inter-ministerial meetings, the most recent of which I attended in June.</p>
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