26: Will compulsory relationships and sex education improve children’s lives?

In the wake of reports of sexual harassment in schools, Vicki and Geraldine talk to Jonathan Baggaley of the PSHE Association about what’s gone wrong.Talking points:- Are parents withdrawing children from RSE?- What do we know about sexual harassment in schools?- Pornography: an extreme form of surveillance capitalism?- As young people face an epidemic of poor mental health, why are some children better protected?*The research we said we would reference in the show notes about protective characteristics against mental ill health is still in progress and not yet published. But here, to be going on with, is a flavour of the Millennium Cohort Study work on young people and mental health:Associations between mental health competence and indicators of physical health and cognitive development in 11-year-olds: findings from the UK Millennium Cohort Study: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-019-7789-7 Tech Shock is a Parent Zone production. Follow Parent Zone on social media for all the latest on our work on helping families to thrive in the digital age. Presented by Vicki Shotbolt. Tech Shock is produced and edited by Tim Malster.wwwTwitterFacebookInstagram

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Tech Shock: Everything you always wanted to know about tech and family life.Podcasting from Parent Zone,the media literacy experts, host Vicki Shotbolt  explores the upsides and downsides of family life in the digital age. With a range of expert guests she looks at online harms to children ranging from pornography to gambling and at what should be done about them. Incurably optimistic, Vicki also celebrate the many benefits of tech for children and young people, as she considers how best to live in a world in which family life is now inescapably digital.Listen every Monday, subscribe, and give us a five star review.