(Re-)imagining the relationship between schools and the police in preventing and responding to harmful sexual behaviours in schools

该项目应对英格兰学校目前的性暴力、虐待和骚扰危机，特别是学校与警方在应对和预防学校年轻人中通常被称为“有害性行为"方面的关系。目前，很明显，警察在解决学校的家庭安全问题方面可以发挥作用，但缺乏关于警察与学校应建立的关系性质的最佳实践指导。拟议的项目将利用和巩固学术界、萨里警察、萨里学校网络以及其他政策和实践利益攸关方之间的地方伙伴关系。它将直接解决一个关键的警务优先事项-预防和应对学校中的HSB-对其他地方教育当局和警察部队以及国家利益攸关方具有可转移的价值。具体而言，该项目将为警察和学校在预防和应对学校的家庭暴力方面的关系制定一个框架。该框架将解决警察应在多大程度上和如何参与应对和预防学校中的家庭暴力，以及警察如何在学校中和与学校一起最有效地开展工作。它建立在对学校HSB证据的审查的基础上，该审查由项目小组于2022年3月为教育部（DfE）完成，该审查确定HSB是一个文化问题，跨越了一系列行为，这些行为在其危害性和（非法）合法性方面各不相同，必须被理解为与“健康”或“规范”的青少年性发展不同。该框架将与利益攸关方共同设计，通过利益攸关方参与、知识交流和最佳做法发展这四个不同但互补的方面，与学校、警察以及与预防暴力侵害妇女和女孩行为有关的地方和国家组织和机构建立伙伴关系。它是专门为促进和扩大这些利益相关者之间的联系，并发展萨里警察，学者和其他利益相关者之间的伙伴关系。萨里警察局的循证警务小组将从伙伴关系的警务方面监督和领导该项目。看台包括：1.在萨里警察局内部审查和收集数据，包括与工作人员的访谈，以及审查现有数据、政策文件、教育材料和资源。通过对萨里学校网络的调查，对最近收集的关于警察参与涉及学生的HSB的经验的数据进行审查，沿着在网络中的一所学校内进行更深入的数据收集，涉及事件数据、政策、程序和教育材料的审查，与教师的访谈，干预措施的观察，以及与学生的讨论小组。一套三个利益攸关方参与会议，参加者包括萨里警察和萨里学校，沿着还有暴力侵害妇女和女童行为联盟成员以及地方和国家政策和做法利益攸关方。这些会议将包括一个研讨会和两个讲习班，以交流知识和根据第1和第2.4条的结论制定框架。共同设计框架的现场启动活动，利益攸关方将共同确定未来研究、政策和做法制定及评价的领域。工作环节的目的是，首先，通过环节1和环节2，从当地利益相关者（包括年轻人、教育工作者和警察）的角度确定需求、优先事项和挑战;其次，根据不同的视角，共同设计适应性强的警校关系框架。这些工作将以合作和建设性的方式纳入不同的观点，并将寻求弥合学术界、实践和政策之间的差距。

This project responds to the current crisis of sexual violence, abuse, and harassment in schools in England specifically pertaining to the relationship between schools and the police in responding to and preventing what is typically termed 'harmful sexual behaviours' (HSB) among young people in schools. Presently, it is apparent that police have a role to play in tackling HSB in schools but there is a lack of guidance on best practice for the nature of the relationship they should have with schools. The proposed project will draw upon and consolidate the local partnership between academics, Surrey police, a network of Surrey schools, and other policy and practice stakeholders. It will directly address a key policing priority - the prevention of and response to HSB in schools - with transferable value for other local education authorities and police forces and national stakeholders. Specifically, the project will develop a framework for the relationship between police and schools in preventing and responding to HSB in schools. The framework will address the extent to which and how the police should be involved in responding to and preventing HSB in schools and how the police can work most effectively in and with schools. It builds on a review of evidence about HSB in schools, completed by the project team in March 2022 for the Department for Education (DfE), which identified that HSB is a cultural issue spanning a continuum of behaviours that vary in their harmfulness and (il)legality and must be understood as distinct from 'healthy' or 'normative' adolescent sexual development. The framework will be co-designed with stakeholders through four distinct but complementary strands of stakeholder engagement, knowledge exchange, and best practice development in partnership with schools, police, and local and national organisations and bodies concerned with the prevention of violence against women and girls. It is specifically designed to foster and expand the connections between these stakeholders and develop the partnership between Surrey police, academics, and other stakeholders. The Evidence-Based Policing team at Surrey Police will oversee and lead the project from the policing side of the partnership. The stands include:1. A review and collection of data within Surrey Police, including interviews with staff, and a review of available data, policy documents, and educational materials and resources.2. A review of data recently collected via a survey of the network of Surrey schools about their experiences of police involvement in HSB involving pupils, along with more in-depth data collection within one school in the network involving a review of incident data, policies, procedures, and educational materials, interviews with teachers, observations of interventions, and discussion groups with pupils.3. A set of three stakeholder engagement sessions, involving Surrey police and Surrey schools along with Violence Against Women and Girls Coalition members and local and national policy and practice stakeholders. These sessions will include a seminar and two workshops for knowledge exchange and framework development based on the findings from strands 1 and 2.4. An in-person launch event of the co-designed framework whereby stakeholders will co-identify areas for future research and policy and practice development and evaluation. The purposes of the work strands are, first, to identify the needs, priorities, and challenges from the perspective of local stakeholders (including young people, educators, and police) via strands 1 and 2; and second, to co-design the adaptable framework for the police-school relationship based on the different perspectives. The work strands will be designed to collaboratively and constructively include the different perspectives and will seek to bridge gaps between academia, practice and policy.