Derbyshire council to spend £40,000 teaching pupils about toxic masculinity
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Derbyshire County Council went out to tender for an “exploring masculinities” programme earlier this year and the year-long programme will be led by Devon charity Beyond Equality.
The programme the county council hired the charity for is detailed as follows: “Exploring masculinities will support pupils in secondary education setting, as well as education staff, to be able to reflect on pressures young people face regarding masculinity and produce an action plan to support embedding safe respectful behaviours in the whole setting.
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Hide Ad“This project will serve to support students, and their school settings to reflect on the pressures they experience concerning masculinity, and develop school communities that support respectful, safe, healthy behaviour of the whole school.”
Through the workshops carried out by the charity, either in person or via Zoom, boys are encouraged to “take off their armour” and reflect on how they may be pressured to act.
Dan Guinness, director of Beyond Equality, says on the charity’s website: “There’s a need and an opportunity in the UK to engage men in a brave and transformative rethinking of what ‘being a man’ means for them and others.
“We need to engage all men in preventing gender based violence and creating communities that are safe for everyone. We need to give all men and boys the chance to develop identities and behaviours that are healthier for themselves and others. Boys won’t be boys, they’ll be what we teach them to be.”