The Education Secretary has set out a new plan to tackle misogyny and challenge toxic influences and attitudes in schools.

A practical framework will be made available to schools to tackle misogyny with resources including practical guides, teacher training and parent support.

The new approach will help to create a culture of respect and belonging, and embed positive attitudes from classroom teaching and enrichment activities to pastoral support and interactions beyond the school gates.

It will help young people build healthy relationships, challenge harmful attitudes and develop the skills they need to navigate an increasingly complex online and offline world.

This new strategy builds on the government’s strengthened Relationships, Sex and Health Education curriculum now being taught in schools, improving teaching about healthy relationships, recognising harmful behaviour and navigating online risks, including deepfakes, and other harmful content.

To support teachers with the new curriculum, the government is investing £150,000 in a new RSHE expert advisory group, which will develop new resources to support teachers delivering sensitive and complex topics confidently.

Recent data shows that half of girls reported hearing misogynistic comments from other pupils during a week at school in May, while 30 per cent of year 10 and 11 pupils said they had recently heard comments that made them worry about the safety of girls.