Teachers in England to be trained to spot misogyny | BBC News

Teachers will be given training to spot and tackle misogyny in the classroom, while high-risk pupils could be sent on behavioural courses as part of the UK government’s long-awaited strategy to halve violence against women and girls in the next decade.

The £20m package will include a new helpline for teenagers to get support for concerns about abuse in their own relationships.

Nearly 40% of teenagers in relationships are victims of abuse, domestic abuse charity Reducing the Risk has said.

The government hopes that by tackling the early roots of misogyny, it will prevent young men from becoming violent abusers.

But the domestic abuse commissioner for England and Wales, Dame Nicole Jacobs, said the commitments did "not go far enough" to see the number of people experiencing abuse start to fall.

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