VAWG Workshops for Schools, Colleges, Universities and Staff Training
VAWG Workshops from 2020 Dreams provide age-appropriate, safeguarding-focused education on Violence Against Women and Girls, healthy and unhealthy relationships, misogyny, sexual harassment, coercive control, consent, stalking, online abuse and the wider attitudes that can allow gender-based harm to become normalised.
Our VAWG Workshops are designed for a wide range of audiences and settings, with every session adapted to the age group, safeguarding context and needs of the organisation. We deliver tailored programmes for primary and secondary schools, sixth forms, colleges, universities, SEND and SEMH settings, PRUs and alternative provision, charities, youth organisations, staff teams, professional groups, workplaces and corporate events.
The purpose is prevention, recognition and early support. Participants learn how respectful relationships should feel, how harmful behaviour can develop through pressure and control, how online culture can influence attitudes, how to challenge misogyny safely, how to recognise sexual harassment, how to support somebody who may be experiencing abuse and when a concern needs to be shared with a trusted adult, safeguarding lead or specialist service.
Where sexual harassment and sexual violence are the main safeguarding concern, schools, colleges and universities can also book our dedicated Sexual Harassment Workshops, which explore consent, unwanted sexual behaviour, sexual violence, online harassment, bystander skills and routes to support in greater depth.
Our approach avoids graphic content, fear-based teaching and victim-blaming. VAWG education should never suggest that women or girls are responsible for preventing another person’s abusive behaviour. Instead, sessions focus on responsibility, equality, consent, boundaries, positive relationships, safer bystander choices and clear routes to support.
VAWG Workshops for Schools
Core Features of Our VAWG Workshops
- Understanding Violence Against Women and Girls
- Healthy, respectful and equal relationships
- Misogyny, sexism and harmful gender stereotypes
- Consent, boundaries, autonomy and sexual ethics
- Coercive control and controlling behaviour
- Teenage relationship abuse
- Sexual Harassment Workshops – unwanted sexual behaviour, sexualised comments, touching, online harassment and safeguarding
- Stalking and persistent unwanted contact
- Online and technology-facilitated abuse
- Intimate image abuse and image-based pressure
- Cyberflashing and unwanted sexual content
- Sextortion and sexual coercion online
- AI-generated sexual images and deepfake abuse
- Misogynistic influencers, the manosphere and harmful online narratives
- Pornography, sexual entitlement and unrealistic expectations where age appropriate
- Spiking awareness and sexual safety for older learners
- Exploitation, grooming and abuse of power
- Positive masculinity and the role of boys and young men in prevention
- Bystander awareness and safer intervention
- Recognising disclosures and accessing support
- VAWG staff training, safeguarding CPD and corporate awareness
VAWG Workshops can be delivered as a standalone programme or combined with specialist sessions on Sexual Harassment Workshops, Misogyny, Manosphere, Toxic Masculinity, Healthy Relationships, Consent, Teenage Relationship Abuse, Online Safety, AI and Deepfakes, Pornography, Spiking and Situational Awareness.
What Does VAWG Mean?
VAWG stands for Violence Against Women and Girls. The UK Government’s current cross-government strategy describes VAWG as a wide range of crimes and behaviours that are disproportionately experienced by women and girls. These include domestic abuse, stalking, sexual violence, sexual harassment, so-called honour-based abuse, forced marriage, female genital mutilation, online and technology-facilitated abuse, intimate image abuse, sexual exploitation and spiking.
The term recognises a gendered pattern of harm: women and girls are disproportionately affected by many of these behaviours and the majority of perpetrators in several major VAWG crime categories are men. At the same time, boys and men can also experience domestic abuse, stalking, sexual violence, exploitation and intimate image abuse. Our workshops make that distinction clearly so that the reality of disproportionate harm is not diluted while no victim is made to feel that support is unavailable to them.
For children and young people, VAWG is not only about the most serious criminal offences. Prevention also means examining the attitudes, relationship dynamics and social pressures that can make harmful behaviour easier to excuse or overlook. That includes sexist language, sexual entitlement, pressure for images, possessiveness presented as care, repeated monitoring, humiliating comments, unwanted sexual attention and the belief that somebody owes another person access to their time, body, phone or location.
Why VAWG Workshops for Schools Matter in 2026
The prevention of Violence Against Women and Girls is now a clear national priority. The UK Government published Freedom from Violence and Abuse in December 2025, setting an ambition to halve VAWG in a decade. Prevention and early intervention sit alongside pursuing perpetrators and improving support for victims and survivors.
The strategy places education directly within prevention. It states that every child and young person should understand consent and healthy relationships, and that young people should be supported to challenge misogynistic attitudes and harmful online influences.
This aligns closely with the revised Relationships Education, Relationships and Sex Education and Health Education guidance that is introduced from 1 September 2026. The revised guidance strengthens teaching around respectful relationships, consent, power dynamics, misogyny, pornography, online influencers, incel culture, AI and deepfakes.
That does not mean a school simply needs to book a workshop called “VAWG” to become compliant. Schools retain responsibility for curriculum planning, safeguarding, staff training and responding to individual concerns. A specialist VAWG Workshop for Schools can, however, provide focused prevention education, support whole-school safeguarding work and help pupils discuss difficult issues in a structured and age-appropriate setting.
Current Violence Against Women and Girls Evidence
VAWG covers different forms of harm, so no single statistic captures the full picture. Current national evidence is useful for understanding scale while avoiding sensationalism.
Women
The Government’s current VAWG strategy reports that around one in eight women experienced domestic abuse, sexual assault or stalking in the year ending March 2025.
Harassment
ONS estimates for the year ending March 2026 indicate that around 10% of people aged 16 and over experienced some form of harassment in the previous year.
Sexual harassment
The year ending March 2026 Crime Survey for England and Wales estimated that 3.9% of people aged 16 and over experienced some form of sexual harassment.
The latest ONS release also estimates that around 2.1% of people aged 16 and over experienced sexual victimisation in the previous year. ONS advises that those sexual-victimisation estimates are not directly comparable with the previous year because of changes in measurement. These figures are used to provide context, not to suggest that every pupil is at immediate risk.
The VAWG Harm Continuum: ATTITUDE → NORMALISATION → PRESSURE → CONTROL → HARM
One of the distinctive teaching tools in our VAWG Workshops is the VAWG Harm Continuum. It helps participants examine how harmful behaviour can become progressively more serious without teaching that every sexist comment inevitably leads to violence.
ATTITUDE
Beliefs about gender, entitlement, relationships or what somebody “owes” another person.
NORMALISATION
Language or behaviour becomes treated as “just a joke”, “banter” or something everyone should tolerate.
PRESSURE
Guilt, persistence, sexual pressure, pressure for images or emotional manipulation starts limiting genuine choice.
CONTROL
Monitoring, isolation, threats, intimidation, surveillance or attempts to control friends, clothing, movement, money or communication.
HARM
Abuse may become emotional, physical, sexual, economic, digital or a combination of several forms.
The teaching point is prevention: challenge harmful attitudes earlier, recognise pressure before it becomes normal, take controlling behaviour seriously and seek support before risk escalates.
Respect or Control? Relationship Decision Lab
Young people can understand definitions but still struggle when unhealthy behaviour is disguised as affection, loyalty or concern. The Respect or Control? Relationship Decision Lab uses realistic examples to examine the difference.
“Send Me Your Location”
Sharing location can be completely consensual. The issue changes when somebody becomes angry, suspicious or threatening if access is removed.
Decision point: Is there genuine choice, or is access being treated as something the other person is entitled to?
“If You Loved Me…”
A partner repeatedly asks for an intimate image after being told no and frames refusal as proof that the relationship is not serious.
Decision point: Does repeated emotional pressure respect consent?
“I Just Don’t Like Your Friends”
One person gradually discourages their partner from seeing certain friends and then becomes hostile when plans are made without them.
Decision point: When does an opinion become isolation or control?
“It Was Only a Joke”
Sexist comments about a classmate are repeatedly dismissed as banter even after the person says they are uncomfortable.
Decision point: Who decides whether the impact matters?
Healthy Relationships, Equality and Autonomy
Violence Against Women and Girls Workshops should not only teach what abuse looks like. Participants also need a positive model of what healthy relationships look and feel like.
Our Relationship Equality Check uses five questions:
Consent and agreement must be genuine rather than produced through fear, pressure or punishment.
A relationship does not create an automatic right to passwords, location, messages, images or constant access.
Healthy relationships do not require one person to become smaller so the other can feel powerful.
Someone should not fear humiliation, threats, aggression or retaliation for setting a boundary.
Healthy relationships allow friendships, family relationships, interests, education and independent sources of support to continue.
Consent, Power and Sexual Ethics
Consent is central to VAWG prevention, but the revised 2026 RSHE guidance goes further than a simple yes/no model. It asks secondary pupils to understand that ethical behaviour also involves kindness, care, power dynamics and the needs and vulnerabilities of another person.
Our VAWG Workshops for Secondary Schools, colleges and universities explore:
🔹 Consent must be freely given
🔹 Consent can be withdrawn
🔹 Consent to one thing is not consent to everything
🔹 Previous consent does not create future entitlement
🔹 Pressure, threats, manipulation or fear undermine genuine choice
🔹 A relationship does not remove the need for consent
🔹 Intoxication and capacity can affect whether consent can be given
🔹 Ethical relationships involve respect and care, not merely avoiding a criminal offence
🔹 Unequal power can affect a person’s confidence to say no or express discomfort
Content is adapted carefully according to age. Primary pupils are not given secondary-school sexual content; younger sessions focus on body autonomy, boundaries, respect, privacy, trusted adults and recognising uncomfortable behaviour.
Coercive Control and Teenage Relationship Abuse
Coercive control is not always immediately visible. It can develop through a pattern in which one person gradually reduces another person’s independence, confidence or freedom.
VAWG Workshops can explore behaviours such as:
🔹 Constantly demanding to know where somebody is
🔹 Requiring passwords or access to messages
🔹 Monitoring location or social media
🔹 Repeated accusations of cheating
🔹 Telling somebody who they can see or speak to
🔹 Criticising clothing or appearance as a condition of the relationship
🔹 Threatening self-harm or retaliation if somebody leaves
🔹 Pressure for sex or intimate images
🔹 Humiliation, insults or deliberate damage to confidence
🔹 Using secrets, images or personal information as leverage
The workshop does not ask pupils to diagnose their own or somebody else’s relationship. Instead, it gives them language for recognising concerning patterns and reinforces that safeguarding support should be sought where somebody feels frightened, controlled or unsafe.
Sexual Harassment and Unwanted Sexual Behaviour
Sexual harassment can happen in classrooms, corridors, public spaces, workplaces, social settings and online. It may be verbal, non-verbal, physical or digital.
Examples discussed in age-appropriate VAWG Awareness Workshops can include:
🔹 Sexual comments about somebody’s body
🔹 Sexualised name-calling
🔹 Repeated sexual jokes directed at an individual
🔹 Unwanted sexual messages
🔹 Persistent sexual propositioning after refusal
🔹 Deliberately showing somebody sexual material they did not ask to see
🔹 Unwanted touching
🔹 Intrusive sexual questions
🔹 Sexual rumours
🔹 Sharing sexual images without permission
🔹 Cyberflashing
🔹 Upskirting and voyeuristic behaviour
The learning focus is not simply identifying offences. It is understanding dignity, consent, boundaries, respect and the impact created when sexual behaviour is imposed on another person.
Within VAWG education, sexual harassment is connected to wider themes of misogyny, sexual entitlement, consent, peer culture, bystander behaviour and healthy relationships. Where a setting needs this issue as the primary focus, our dedicated Sexual Harassment Workshops provide greater depth on unwanted sexual behaviour, sexual violence, online harassment, intimate image abuse, bystander intervention and safeguarding.
Misogyny, Sexism and Harmful Gender Attitudes
Misogyny does not only appear as explicit hatred of women. It can also be expressed through beliefs that girls should accept sexual attention, that controlling behaviour proves masculinity, that a boy is entitled to sex after spending money on somebody, that rejection is humiliating, or that women who set boundaries are responsible for male anger.
Our VAWG Workshops for Schools help pupils examine the difference between:
🔹 Attraction and entitlement
🔹 Confidence and domination
🔹 Flirting and persistence after refusal
🔹 Humour and humiliation
🔹 Concern and control
🔹 Masculinity and aggression
🔹 Disagreement and dehumanisation
🔹 Free speech and harassment
The aim is not to label every boy as a potential perpetrator or every disagreement as misogyny. Effective prevention gives boys and girls the confidence to identify harmful ideas while allowing respectful discussion, challenge and positive alternatives.
Boys, Young Men and Positive Masculinity in VAWG Prevention
Boys and young men are essential participants in VAWG prevention. The current Government strategy specifically emphasises teaching about positive masculinity and femininity without stigmatising boys.
Our approach avoids presenting masculinity itself as a problem. Instead, participants examine how some narrow expectations of masculinity can create pressure to appear dominant, sexually experienced, unemotional or aggressive.
VAWG Workshops can help boys and young men explore:
🔹 Respect without loss of confidence
🔹 Handling rejection without hostility
🔹 Emotional regulation
🔹 Challenging peers without escalating conflict
🔹 Positive role models
🔹 Consent and sexual ethics
🔹 How algorithms can reinforce grievance or entitlement
🔹 Supporting male friends to make safer relationship choices
🔹 Recognising when a friend is displaying controlling behaviour
🔹 Understanding that men and boys who experience abuse also deserve support
For deeper work in this area, see our Toxic Masculinity Workshops, Manosphere Workshops and Misogyny Workshops.
The Manosphere, Misogynistic Influencers and Online Culture
The revised RSHE guidance and the Government’s VAWG strategy both recognise the influence of online misogynistic content. Young people can encounter simplified narratives about men, women, dating, status, sex and power through recommendation systems, clips, reaction videos, podcasts, livestreams and meme culture.
Our Violence Against Women and Girls Workshops help participants analyse online claims without turning the session into a lecture about individual personalities.
CONTENT → REPETITION → NORMALISATION → EXPECTATION → BEHAVIOUR
Seeing one piece of content does not determine somebody’s behaviour. The workshop examines how repeated exposure, peer reinforcement and algorithmic recommendation can make harmful ideas feel more ordinary or credible over time.
Participants learn to question:
🔹 Who benefits from the message?
🔹 Is the content selling certainty, status or resentment?
🔹 Does it describe women as individuals or as a single hostile group?
🔹 Does it treat relationships as mutual or as a competition for control?
🔹 Does it turn rejection into humiliation?
🔹 Does it encourage empathy or blame?
🔹 Does the creator make money from outrage, subscriptions or repeated engagement?
Online VAWG and Technology-Facilitated Abuse
Violence and abuse can now be facilitated through phones, social platforms, messaging apps, cloud accounts, location services and AI tools. Digital abuse is therefore an important part of modern VAWG education.
Online VAWG Workshops can explore:
🔹 Persistent unwanted messaging
🔹 Monitoring online activity
🔹 Location tracking
🔹 Password demands
🔹 Cyberflashing
🔹 Intimate image pressure
🔹 Non-consensual intimate image sharing
🔹 Threats to publish images or private information
🔹 Sextortion
🔹 Deepfake sexual images
🔹 Impersonation and fake accounts
🔹 Online stalking and repeated contact
🔹 Sexualised rumours in group chats
🔹 Misogynistic harassment campaigns
The workshop emphasises evidence preservation, blocking or reporting where appropriate, involving trusted adults or safeguarding staff and seeking specialist or police support where behaviour may be criminal or somebody is in immediate danger.
Schools, colleges, universities and organisations wanting a deeper digital programme can combine VAWG with our Online Safety Workshops or AI and Deepfake Workshops.
Intimate Image Abuse, Sextortion and Deepfake Sexual Images
Image-based abuse can involve pressure to create an image, sharing an image without agreement, threatening to share an image, manipulating images or generating synthetic sexual content that appears to depict a real person.
Our VAWG Workshops separate three issues that young people often blur together:
PRESSURE
Somebody is repeatedly pushed, guilted, threatened or manipulated into creating or sending sexual content.
SHARING
An intimate image is circulated, displayed or forwarded without the depicted person’s agreement.
FABRICATION
AI or editing tools are used to create sexualised material that falsely appears to show a real person.
A key safeguarding message is that a person who has shared an image under pressure, or who has had an image misused, should be able to seek help without shame. Prevention education should focus on consent, responsibility and support rather than blaming the person depicted.
Pornography, Sexual Entitlement and Expectations
Where age appropriate, VAWG Workshops for Secondary Schools and post-16 settings can examine how pornography may influence expectations about bodies, consent, power and sexual behaviour. The revised 2026 RSHE guidance specifically asks secondary pupils to understand how pornography can negatively influence sexual attitudes and behaviours, including through normalising harmful behaviour and contributing to sexual entitlement.
Participants do not view pornographic material in our sessions. Discussion remains educational and non-explicit and focuses on:
🔹 Performance versus real relationships
🔹 Consent and editing
🔹 Power and sexual scripts
🔹 Unrealistic body expectations
🔹 Repeated exposure and normalisation
🔹 The difference between sexual content and sexual education
🔹 How misogyny can be reinforced through degrading or coercive narratives
For more depth, see our Pornography Workshops.
Stalking, Persistent Contact and Digital Monitoring
Stalking is not limited to somebody physically following another person. Persistent unwanted contact can also involve repeated messaging, new accounts after being blocked, turning up unexpectedly, monitoring locations, contacting friends or family, or using digital tools to maintain unwanted access.
Our VAWG Awareness Workshops help older pupils and adult participants distinguish between:
🔹 Mutual communication and repeated unwanted contact
🔹 Checking in and monitoring
🔹 Coincidence and a pattern of unwanted appearances
🔹 Reconciliation attempts and intimidation
🔹 Curiosity and surveillance
Participants are not encouraged to confront somebody they believe may be stalking them. The focus is preserving safety, sharing concerns, seeking appropriate support and involving police where necessary.
Spiking, Night-Time Safety and VAWG
The Government’s current VAWG strategy includes spiking within its definition of VAWG crimes and behaviours. For sixth-form, college, university and adult audiences, workshops can include spiking awareness alongside consent, alcohol, social settings and helping a friend.
The message is explicitly non-blaming. Nobody is responsible for being spiked because of what they drank, where they went or whether they watched a drink continuously.
🔹 Recognising when somebody is unexpectedly unwell
🔹 Staying with a friend who may need help
🔹 Seeking medical support promptly
🔹 Involving venue staff where appropriate
🔹 Preserving information that may help reporting
🔹 Contacting police where a crime is suspected
🔹 Understanding consent where somebody is intoxicated or incapacitated
Exploitation, Grooming and Abuse of Power
VAWG can overlap with sexual exploitation, criminal exploitation, grooming, trafficking and gang-associated harm. Girls may experience coercion or sexual violence within exploitative situations while boys may also be victims of sexual and criminal exploitation.
Our workshops can explore:
🔹 Gifts, attention or status being used to create obligation
🔹 Age and power differences
🔹 Isolation from existing support
🔹 Threats involving images or secrets
🔹 Pressure to perform sexual acts
🔹 Association with gangs or criminal activity
🔹 Fear of consequences for leaving
🔹 Why exploitation is a safeguarding issue even where a young person believes they initially agreed to participate
Bystander Skills: NOTICE → CHECK SAFETY → INTERRUPT → INVOLVE → SUPPORT
Young people are often witnesses before adults become aware of a problem. Effective bystander education therefore needs more than telling pupils to “call it out”. Direct confrontation is not always the safest or most useful response.
Recognise that a comment, interaction or pattern may be harmful rather than automatically dismissing it.
Ask whether direct intervention would increase danger for the person affected or the bystander.
Where safe, interrupt the situation, redirect attention, challenge the behaviour or create an opportunity for somebody to leave.
Get a teacher, safeguarding lead, venue staff member, security professional, manager, trusted adult or emergency service when the situation requires more authority or specialist help.
Check in afterwards, listen without blaming and help the person access appropriate support.
Supporting a Friend Who May Be Experiencing Abuse
Young people are often the first people friends disclose to. Our VAWG Workshops help participants understand that being supportive does not mean becoming somebody’s counsellor, investigator or sole source of protection.
LISTEN → BELIEVE THE CONCERN → DON’T BLAME → DON’T PROMISE UNSAFE SECRECY → INVOLVE SUPPORT
Where somebody may be at risk of abuse, exploitation or serious harm, getting appropriate adult or safeguarding support is more important than keeping a promise that nobody else will be told.
VAWG Workshop Overview
VAWG, RSHE 2026 and Keeping Children Safe in Education
The revised RSHE statutory guidance is introduced from 1 September 2026. Schools must have regard to the guidance when delivering Relationships Education, RSE and Health Education.
For secondary pupils, the revised guidance strengthens expectations around consent, respectful relationships, power imbalances, misogyny, pornography, incel culture, misogynistic online influencers, AI and deepfakes. Primary Relationships Education continues to establish foundations around respectful relationships, boundaries, privacy, safety and seeking help in an age-appropriate way.
KCSIE 2026 also comes into force on 1 September 2026. Until 31 August 2026, schools and colleges must continue to use KCSIE 2025. The guidance sets out schools’ and colleges’ legal duties to safeguard and promote the welfare of children and young people under 18.
A VAWG Workshop can support RSHE, PSHE and safeguarding education but does not replace statutory curriculum planning, KCSIE responsibilities, a school’s safeguarding policy, DSL decision-making or specialist intervention for individual children.
VAWG Workshops for Primary Schools
VAWG Workshops for Primary Schools require a very different approach from secondary or post-16 sessions. For younger pupils, the objective is to build the foundations that later prevention work depends on rather than introduce adult descriptions of sexual or domestic violence.
Primary and upper-Key-Stage-2 content can include respect and fairness, healthy and unhealthy friendship behaviour, body autonomy, personal boundaries, privacy, recognising uncomfortable behaviour, stereotypes about boys and girls, online kindness, trusted adults and asking for help.
The language “VAWG” may be more relevant to the commissioning school and safeguarding framework than to the pupil-facing title. We can adapt terminology so the content remains developmentally appropriate and does not create unnecessary fear.
VAWG Workshops for Secondary Schools
VAWG Workshops for Secondary Schools can address sexual harassment, misogyny, consent, coercive control, teenage relationship abuse, intimate image pressure, cyberflashing, sextortion, pornography, manosphere influences, AI deepfakes, stalking, bystander choices and safeguarding support.
Sessions are structured to challenge harmful behaviour without presenting boys collectively as the problem or asking girls to take responsibility for preventing male violence.
VAWG Workshops for Sixth Forms and Colleges
Post-16 learners experience greater independence and may be navigating adult relationships, nightlife, work placements, travel and online dating. VAWG Workshops for Colleges and Sixth Forms can therefore explore intimate relationships, coercive control, digital monitoring, stalking, intimate image abuse, spiking, consent and intoxication, sexual harassment, bystander intervention and supporting a friend safely.
VAWG Workshops for Universities
VAWG Workshops for Universities can support student induction, Freshers programmes, consent education, safeguarding campaigns, residences, student services and wider campus culture. Content can include sexual harassment, consent, spiking, stalking, intimate image abuse, online dating, supporting friends and housemates, bystander strategies and reporting routes.
VAWG Workshops for SEND, SEMH, PRUs and Alternative Provision
VAWG Workshops can be adapted for SEND, SEMH, PRUs and alternative provision using concrete examples, visual scenarios, smaller groups, repetition and carefully structured discussion.
Some learners may benefit from particularly explicit teaching around respectful behaviour, personal space, privacy, consent and refusal, online contact, pressure for images, recognising manipulation and who to tell when something feels unsafe.
Delivery should reflect the needs of the actual group rather than assuming that all pupils with additional needs require the same approach.
VAWG Staff Training for Schools and Colleges
VAWG Staff Training supports teachers, DSLs, safeguarding teams, pastoral leads, tutors and wider staff who need confidence discussing Violence Against Women and Girls and responding appropriately when concerns emerge.
Training can include current VAWG strategy and RSHE expectations, sexual harassment between pupils, misogyny and harmful online influences, coercive control in teenage relationships, digital abuse, sextortion and intimate image concerns, responding to disclosures, avoiding victim-blaming, recording and escalating safeguarding concerns, supporting boys and young men without stigmatisation and whole-school culture.
Our external training supports professional practice but does not replace a setting’s statutory safeguarding training or local safeguarding procedures.
VAWG Corporate Training and Professional Awareness
VAWG awareness and prevention are relevant across education, workplaces and professional settings. We deliver tailored programmes for corporate organisations, charities, professional teams and events, with adult-focused content that reflects workplace culture, professional boundaries, harassment, bystander responsibility and support rather than simply repurposing school material.
VAWG Corporate Training can be adapted to focus on workplace sexual harassment awareness, professional boundaries, sexism and misogyny in workplace culture, bystander responsibility, online conduct, supporting colleagues experiencing domestic abuse or stalking, internal reporting routes and leadership culture.
Corporate sessions are awareness and culture programmes and can be tailored to the organisation’s policies, workforce and event format. Where legal or HR compliance training is required, the session should be aligned with the organisation’s own professional advice and procedures.
For wider professional programmes, see our VAWG Staff Training options.
Safeguarding Disclosures During VAWG Workshops
VAWG content can prompt participants to recognise experiences in their own lives. This makes safeguarding planning important before the session begins.
We encourage commissioning settings to make the DSL or safeguarding contact clear before delivery, ensure staff know how concerns raised during the session will be managed, avoid requiring pupils to disclose personal experiences publicly, provide a private route for asking for support and follow normal safeguarding procedures after a disclosure.
Workshop leaders do not investigate allegations or ask participants to provide unnecessary details in front of peers.
Benefits of VAWG Workshops for Schools and Organisations
Participants can distinguish respect, pressure, control, harassment and abuse more confidently.
Young people learn to take concerning patterns seriously before they become normalised.
Consent is explored alongside power, autonomy, respect and ethical relationships.
Participants learn that intervention can mean direct challenge, distraction, involving others or supporting somebody afterwards.
Online harassment, intimate image abuse, deepfakes and coercive digital behaviour are connected to real-world safeguarding.
Participants understand that support should be sought without shame and that safeguarding concerns do not have to be managed alone.
How We Deliver VAWG Workshops
Primary, secondary, post-16 and adult audiences receive substantially different content.
ATTITUDE → NORMALISATION → PRESSURE → CONTROL → HARM helps participants recognise developing patterns without suggesting escalation is inevitable.
Realistic relationship scenarios move the discussion beyond definitions and into practical judgement.
CHOICE → PRIVACY → EQUALITY → SAFETY → SUPPORT provides a positive model of healthy relationships.
Participants examine how repeated misogynistic narratives can shape expectations around gender, relationships and power.
NOTICE → CHECK SAFETY → INTERRUPT → INVOLVE → SUPPORT gives participants options beyond unsafe confrontation.
Sessions do not require public disclosure, graphic case studies or shock tactics and are delivered with clear support routes.
Related VAWG, Relationships and Safeguarding Workshops
Schools, colleges, universities and organisations often combine VAWG Workshops with related safeguarding, relationships and professional-awareness programmes to create a more complete prevention approach.
Sexual Harassment Workshops
Consent, unwanted sexual behaviour, sexual violence, online harassment, image-based abuse, bystander skills and safeguarding.
Misogyny Workshops
Everyday sexism, harmful gender attitudes, entitlement and online misogyny.
Manosphere Workshops
Online influencers, incel culture, grievance, gender narratives and algorithmic influence.
Toxic Masculinity Workshops
Rigid masculinity pressures, emotional suppression, aggression, status and positive alternatives.
Healthy Relationships Workshops
Respect, trust, equality, communication, boundaries and recognising unhealthy relationships.
Teenage Relationship Abuse
Coercive control, possessiveness, monitoring, isolation, fear and routes to support.
Consent Workshops
Consent, boundaries, pressure, power, withdrawal of consent and respectful sexual ethics.
Online Safety Workshops
Online grooming, sextortion, AI, deepfakes, harassment, privacy and digital safeguarding.
Situational Awareness Workshops
Personal safety, environmental awareness, travel, public spaces and safer decision-making.
VAWG Staff Training
Bespoke safeguarding, RSHE, VAWG, sexual harassment, misogyny and professional-development programmes.
VAWG Workshops FAQ
Book VAWG Workshops for Your School, College, University or Organisation
Bring VAWG Workshops to your school, college, sixth form, university, youth service, charity, professional team, workplace or corporate event. Tell us the audience, number of participants, location, preferred dates and the Violence Against Women and Girls issues you would most like the programme to address.
We can provide VAWG Workshops for Schools, age-specific pupil sessions, post-16 and university programmes, VAWG Staff Training, charity and youth-sector delivery, or bespoke corporate and professional awareness sessions. VAWG can also be combined with Sexual Harassment Workshops, Misogyny, Manosphere, Toxic Masculinity, Healthy Relationships, Consent, Teenage Relationship Abuse, Online Safety, AI and Deepfakes, Pornography, Spiking or Situational Awareness.
VAWG Workshops – References and Current Guidance
Our Violence Against Women and Girls Workshops draw on current Government policy, statutory education guidance and national evidence:
- Home Office – Freedom from Violence and Abuse: A Cross-Government Strategy – the current UK Government VAWG strategy, published in December 2025 and updated in 2026, setting an ambition to halve violence against women and girls in a decade.
- Home Office – Freedom from Violence and Abuse: Action Plan – includes prevention and education commitments around healthy relationships, misogyny, harmful online content, positive masculinity, incels, AI and deepfakes.
- Office for National Statistics – Crime in England and Wales: Year Ending March 2026 – current national statistics including sexual victimisation, sexual harassment and harassment.
- Department for Education – Relationships Education, RSE and Health Education – revised statutory guidance for introduction on 1 September 2026.
- Department for Education – Keeping Children Safe in Education – KCSIE 2025 remains in force until 31 August 2026 and KCSIE 2026 comes into force on 1 September 2026.
- Crown Prosecution Service – Violence Against Women and Girls Guidance – current prosecution guidance and VAWG framework.
These sources inform a prevention-led, safeguarding-focused approach. VAWG Workshops provide education and awareness; they do not replace individual safeguarding procedures, specialist victim support, criminal investigation, legal advice or emergency intervention.