How does RE:SET work?

Relationships Education: School’s Equality Toolkit guides your school through the following five blocks which build on each other to reach everyone in the school:

1. Project delivery team

Tender has over 10 years of experience in developing a Whole School Approach to violence-prevention and we know that a keystone for success is demonstrable commitment from senior leaders.   The journey begins with creating your school’s Project Delivery Team and leadership has to come from the top.

We also know that schools are time-poor, so RE:SET aims to make it as straight-forward as possible with timed tasks and the resources to achieve them.  The tasks in this block will support you to create the team and infrastructure to deliver the effective management and impact of a whole school approach to healthy relationships education.

2. Involving setting staff

Your staff are not only a major asset, they play a vital role in the prevailing culture of your school, so RE:SET wants to reach ALL adults working across the school because staff confidence in promoting healthy relationships is so important to the success of this project.

The tasks and resources in this block support your school to increase existing staff awareness, confidence and skills in order to promote healthy relationships and prevent gender-based violence.  You will also work collaboratively with your Tender mentor to identify specialist safeguarding training programmes to boost staff knowledge.

3. Working with children & young people

The aim of RE:SET is to support your pupils to learn safely, thrive as individuals and create future communities committed to respectful and equal relationships. The statutory guidance on Relationships Education outlines what is to be delivered and RE:SET will support your school on how to deliver the curriculum.

The tasks that you work through in this block will enhance the work you currently do with your students. You’ll create bespoke training designed in collaboration with your Tender mentor and receive additional lesson-plan ideas, delivery methods and resources. Through the induction and audit process you will also decide with you Tender Mentor if there are any workshops or activity days Tender can support you to deliver as we celebrate and increase awareness about healthy friendships.

4. Involving families & communities

Your families and local communities are a potential asset in supporting your school to prevent violence and promote equality. Their active engagement will enhance your school’s journey to becoming a champion of healthy relationships education.

Confidence in talking to families and communities is vital. The tasks in this block will support your school to consult with families and communities; including explaining why your school is addressing these issues, the strategies you’re using, the messages being promoted to your students, and how families can also talk about healthy relationships, equality and trust with their children and young people to support them at home.

5. Positive setting culture

The culmination of working through the tasks on each of the previous blocks in RE:SET will result in creating a positive culture throughout the whole school that promotes healthy relationships and reinforces your school’s commitment to violence-prevention.  However communicating what your school is doing from day one will set the tone of your intentions.

The tasks in this block will support you with the development of messages delivered through a variety of mediums, that can be disseminated throughout the school and local community, and timetabled across the year.

Once completing all tasks in the five blocks the partner school will be awarded their Healthy Relationships Champion Setting badge to use on all online and offline communication and a plaque to display in the school. The Tender mentor will discuss what other opportunities there are for relationships education with Tender in the future as well as supporting planning for delivery by school staff. The Healthy Relationships Champion Setting status is valid for three years and after this time an audit will be completed to assess if refresher training or delivery needs to be done to maintain the schools champion status.”