Step Up, Speak Up!

A practical campaign toolkit to address the issue of online sexual harassment amongst young people aged 13 – 17 years.

Step Up, Speak Up! includes a range of resources for young people and the professionals who work with them, including teachers, pastoral teams, senior school leadership and police forces.

Teaching Toolkit

Practical, scenario-based teaching resources to address the issue of online sexual harassment with 13-17 year olds.

Guidance and training for schools and professionals

The following guidance and training resources have been developed to provide professionals who work with young people practical tips and advice on understanding, preventing and responding to online sexual harassment in educational settings.

Defining online sexual harassment

Online sexual harassment is unwanted sexual conduct on any digital platform and it is recognised as a form of sexual violence.

Online sexual harassment encompasses a wide range of behaviours that use digital content (images, videos, posts, messages, pages) on a variety of different platforms (private or public).

This toolkit specifically focuses on peer-to-peer online sexual harassment taking place between young people.

Find out more in the Project deSHAME Research Report.

Step Up, Speak Up! Campaign Toolkit 2019 by Childnet International is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.