Outputs from the Streetwise programme

To date, Streetwise has worked with over 200 hundred school children aged 12-16, in several areas including: Bexley, Southwark, Merton, Camden, Barking and Dagenham, Richmond and Croydon.

Outcomes include:

Increase in knowledge and understanding:

• 98% report an increase in their understanding of sexual bullying
• 91% report an increase in their understanding of grooming
• 87% report an increase in their understanding of sexual exploitation

Increase in confidence and change in behaviours:

• 32% report an increase in confidence
• 68% felt they had changed their attitude towards sexual bullying

Ability to help others:

• 48% said it helped them to help others experiencing sexual bullying

Sexting

“the act of sending sexually explicit messages or photos electronically, primarily between mobile phones and/or the internet”

In 2009, Beatbullying surveyed over 2,000 young people aged 11-16, to improve our knowledge of cyber bullying. As part of the survey, and to build on the Streetwise programme, we asked young people about their experience of sexual bullying and exposure to inappropriate content on the internet.

• 38% have received unwanted or nasty sexually explicit messages
• 70% knew the sender
• 25% received an offensive sexual image, of which 55% were issued via mobile phone
• 45% came from a peer, 23% from a current boyfriend/girlfriend and just 2% came from an adult

The full results of the can also be found in Beatbullying’s Virtual Violence report. 

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