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To make Body Safety education mandatory from age 5 in our schools.
Closed
171 signatures
What the petition asks
Teach&Tell know that providing early open and honest education about body safety, starting from 5 years and continuing on with young people will greatly improve safeguarding and sexual health outcomes and thereby dramatically reduce exposure to childhood sexual abuse.
Teach&Tell are working off average Welsh primary school pupil numbers, which are reported to be between 180 - 220 per school, so if we take 200 children per school, add 30 additional pupils per year, that's 500 children over a 10 year period.
Statistically in that time and per school 125 girls and 83 boys will have been sexually abused.
That means:
307,424. Welsh children.
3,511,872. English children.
432,848. Scottish children.
That's 4,252,144 utterly ruined lives, we must change it!
Statistically in that time and per school 125 girls and 83 boys will have been sexually abused.
That means:
307,424. Welsh children.
3,511,872. English children.
432,848. Scottish children.
That's 4,252,144 utterly ruined lives, we must change it!
Timeline
| 19 Aug 2015 | Petition opened for signatures |
| 19 Feb 2016 | Closed to new signatures |
Key facts
Signatures
171
Status
Closed
Opened
19 Aug 2015
Closed
19 Feb 2016
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