RESPECTFUL RELATIONSHIPS 

Benefits of respectful relationships education 

Implementing Respectful Relationships education in schools can achieve the following. 

Increases in: 

• Students’ knowledge of, attitudes towards, and confidence in discussing issues of domestic violence, gender equality and respectful relationships. 
• Teachers’ understanding of the importance of respectful relationships education. 
• School level commitments to respectful relationships, apparent through development of staff gender equality and respectful relationships policies and procedures, for example: 
• positive student classroom behaviour 
• positive student-student and teacher-student relationships. 

Decreases in: 

• Students’ adherence to gender stereotypes. Rigid gender stereotypes can be harmful and limiting, affecting students’ interactions with each other and their participation in life.