•  Types of online gambling/debt
• The risks associated with gambling and recognise that chance-based transactions can carry similar risks
• Strategies for managing peer and other influences relating to gambling
• Build resilience to thinking errors associated with gambling (e.g. ‘gambler’s fallacy’) the range of gambling-related harms and how to access support

•  Explore the Post-16 pathways available
• The functions and uses of money, budgeting, managing risk, credit and debt, insurance, savings and pensions and applying maths to financial context
• How to manage money as school leave and learn how to save and utilise rewards and offers as a young person in college/work-based training

•  What racism is and how it can present itself
• How stereotypes can lead to prejudice and racism
• How racism affects people in the school as well as wider community, with reference to the summer riots in England 2024.
• Consider how can we be anti-racist

•  Review the benefits and problems with using social media.
• Understand how harmful content can be presented online
• Explore AI/Deepfakes and Sextortion/harassment online
• Explore strategies to support with harmful content online.

•  The harms caused by pornography; how the portrayal of sex in pornography misrepresents sexual intimacy and can influence sexual attitudes, expectations, behaviours, consent and feelings around body acceptance and autonomy, or can create a sense of sexual entitlement over others’ bodies.
• The negative influence pornography can have on people who see it, accidentally or deliberately
• That pornography can promote misogynistic attitudes and behaviours; the law on, and purpose of, age-verification for websites showing pornographic content; how to seek support if affected by pornography or concerned about their own use or behaviour
• How pornography can normalise harmful sexual behaviours (that many people do not and will never engage in), including the representation of strangulation; the legal, physical and emotional consequences associated with strangulation and suffocation; that applying force or pressure to someone’s neck or covering the mouth and nose is dangerous and can lead to serious injury or death
• How to respond to pressure to behave in unhealthy or harmful ways, and seek appropriate help and support if needed

•  Everyone’s right to be treated with respect, and how the Equality Act applies in different contexts, including schools, workplaces, public spaces and online
• That a tolerant community requires building mutual respect and understanding for others’ beliefs, perspectives and cultures
• How online content, including the more extreme expression of views and curated, fake and idealised profiles, can present a distorted picture of people and the world; the influence of extreme views on people’s attitudes, beliefs and behaviours, and the shared responsibility to challenge extreme viewpoints that incite violence or hate
• How people can be drawn into extremist narratives or communities offline or online; the personal consequences of extremism and intolerance in all their forms, and ways to get help for themselves or others
• How false or harmful narratives promoted by some online communities or influencers can distort understanding and cause harm
• Misogynistic attitudes and behaviours and how they have a detrimental effect on everyone (female and male)’s wellbeing, relationships and sexual ethics
• How harmful narratives can spread online, including misogynistic or violent ideas; how to report disturbing or inappropriate content and where to seek advice and support related to online content that normalises or glamorises unhealthy or illegal behaviours
• Safe and appropriate ways to challenge misogynistic ideas, how to support those affected, and how to limit the spread of misogynistic beliefs and attitudes
• How inequalities of power can impact behaviour within relationships, including sexual relationships;
• Strategies to redress power imbalances and the importance of doing so for healthy relationships

•  Describe what aspirations are and discuss your own aspirations.
• Explore the significance of effective communication and team work
• Understand professional etiquette required post-16
• Explore how to be professional online.

•  Identify the LGBTQIA+ spectrum
• Identify what homophobia is and how it can be presented
• The impact of stereotyping, prejudice and discrimination on individuals and relationships
• About the unacceptability of prejudice-based language and behaviour, offline and online, including homophobia, biphobia, transphobia (as well as sexism, racism and ableism and faith-based prejudice
• The need to promote inclusion and challenge discrimination, and how to do so safely, including online

•  Explore intimacy and why some people may choose to delay it
• Review consent before, during and following intimacy
• The importance of safe sex and the implications of unsafe sex e.g., STI’s (sexually transmitted infections)
• Explore strategies for coping with unplanned pregnancy as well as support.

•  How to identify and clarify personal values and how these influence decisions and behaviours in sexual relationships; the skills to assess their readiness for sex as an individual and within a couple; that many young people wait to have sex until they are older.
• A variety of faith and cultural practices and beliefs concerning sexual activity and respect the role these might play in relationships
• The role that communication and respect play in healthy relationships and consent, and how to recognise enthusiastic, authentic consent
• About sexual pressure; internal and external expectations about sexual behaviours and how to manage these
• That ethical behaviour within a relationship involves equal concern for each other’s needs, consideration of power dynamics vulnerabilities, and an awareness of the impact these can have on consent

•  Explore intimacy and why some people may choose to delay it
• Review consent before, during and following intimacy
• The importance of safe sex and the implications of unsafe sex e.g., STI’s (sexually transmitted infections)
• Explore strategies for coping with unplanned pregnancy as well as support.

•  Explore expected and unexpected life events
• Ways in which your mental health and wellbeing can be affected, with reference to self-harm and suicidal thoughts.
• How to identify strategies to manage your mental/emotional health and wellbeing
• How you can achieve positive wellness including where to seek appropriate support

• The Law in relation to sexual exploitation, abuse and the effects on relationships
• The Law in relation to harassment, rape, domestic abuse and the effects on relationship
• The Law in relation to forced marriage, honour-based violent and FGM and the effects on relationships

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