Teenage relationship abuse

The teenage relationship abuse campaign, ran from September to November 2011, and aimed to prevent teenagers from becoming victims and perpetrators of abusive relationships.

Re-think views

The campaign encouraged teenagers to re-think their views of acceptable violence, abuse or controlling behaviour in relationships and directs them to places for help and advice.

The This is Abuse campaign website gave teens the chance to discuss the issues with their peers and get access to third party support and advice. We also ran online discussion forums with the support of our partners such as AVA (Against Violence and Abuse), Women’s Aid, Respect – men's advice line, Beat Bullying and Broken Rainbow.

Download support materials

You can download the posters or the leaflet for parents and carers from the campaign from our publications section.  You can also view the campaign adverts on the This is Abuse website.  

Advice for schools and teenagers

The following documents contain advice for schools and teenagers on dealing with issues around teenage relationship abuse. We would like to thank Women’s Aid, Against Violence and Abuse and Womankind for their help in the development of these materials.

Find out more

Background

The Home Office committed to running a youth prevention campaign to tackle teenage relationship violence in the violence against women and girls action plan which was published on 8 March 2010. 

The teenage relationship abuse campaign originally ran in February and March 2010 and we re-ran advertising from September to November 2011 on youth TV stations, in cinemas, on posters in schools, shopping and leisure centres and online. 

A new campaign which focuses on rape and sexual assault launched on 5 March 2012.

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