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The vocal minority turns up the volume on protesting sex education
The smartphone generation, my two teenage children included, have had to deal with the lure and pressures of 24/7 access to the digital...

Leah Jewett
Feb 20, 20195 min read


WOW: The lowdown on sex ed
The full-on three-day WOW (Women of the World) festival, now in its eighth great year at London’s Southbank Centre, is galvanising and...

Leah Jewett
Mar 16, 20187 min read


Hiding in plain sight: what’s missing from your children’s sex education
What is one of the most important elements that is missing from your children’s sex education? What’s missing is you – their parent....

Leah Jewett
Feb 13, 20185 min read


The importance of educating parents to educate their children
In today’s digital and highly sexualised world, there is a pressing need for relationships and sex education (RSE). Recent media coverage...

Leah Jewett
Feb 9, 20183 min read


Where Outspoken stands on the government consultation on relationships and sex education (RSE)
Near midnight on 12 February 2018, the website for the Department for Education (DfE) seemed close to crashing. The deadline was imminent...

Leah Jewett
Feb 7, 201813 min read


At the heart of Valentine’s Day: 14 tips for talking openly with children and young people
Valentine’s Day is a catalyst for talking with children and young people about love and healthy relationships – and the perfect symbolic...

Leah Jewett
Feb 5, 20183 min read


Up against it: the urgency of confronting children’s exposure to pornography
Never having grown up with an endless supply of explicit sexual images at the touch of a mobile phone or on screens in their own homes,...

Leah Jewett
Dec 19, 20174 min read


Porn Generation conference featuring Outspoken co-founder Yoan Reed and panellist Meg Veit
With at its heart the motivation to set up a local equivalent of the ground-breaking Bristol Ideal – a whole school approach for ending...

Leah Jewett
Nov 26, 20178 min read




