“I was sexually abused and no-one told me what was done to me was wrong. He was my granddad. I thought it was my fault. If I had known it was wrong and that I could say something, it might have stopped earlier than it did.”
Female, 16-years-old
Half of young people have not learnt at school how to recognise the signs of grooming or how to get help if they are being sexually abused, new research has warned.
Furthermore, a third of young people have learnt nothing about sexual consent and many do not know what an abusive relationship looks like.
The huge inconsistency in sex and relationships education (SRE) in schools has been exposed by a study involving more than 2,300 young people aged 11 to 25.
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