In response to the “witch-hunt” following the Jimmy Savile abuse scandal, Barrister Barbara Hewson has suggested lowering the age of consent to 13 and waiving anonymity for complainants in an effort to stop the “persecution of old men” in a May 8th article for the online publication Spiked.

As I got onto the train this morning, I came face to face with an issue of The Metro on the seat in front of me. A giant headline in bold print, “Rape: The figures that shame Britain.” What I found was a short article illustrating some pretty abysmal statistics. Of the estimated 473,000 instances of sexual offences that occurred this past year in the UK, less than 54,000 were recorded by police, and of those recorded only 5,620 resulted in convictions.

Our final collaboration brings a new field of expertise to our mix of partners. Relate North Essex and East Herts offers counselling and training for individuals, couples, families and young people.

We are proud to announce that Peer Productions, a unique youth arts training company, will now also be one of Tender’s National Partners.

Soft Touch was established in 1986 and has since become a celebrated participatory arts and community development organisation, working in and around Leicester. Tender are really excited to announce that over the next three years one of the many new ventures they will be rolling out through the Leicestershire region is Tender’s Healthy Relationships project.

Tender is really excited to announce that Liverpool John Moores University is one of our new national partners.

Tender’s Healthy Relationship’s project is going national! We have teamed up with four organisations from across England to deliver Tender’s Healthy Relationships model to over 90 secondary schools throughout the UK over the next three years.

American news anchor Jai Cunningham’s personal response to domestic violence is a moving event to witness. One of the biggest struggles in trying to raise awareness about domestic crime is that people often have the idea that it is none of their business.

Do you ever watch a movie and wish you could decide how it ends? Sometimes you just want to shake the characters and give them some friendly advice, like please don’t go into that old abandoned building all by yourself, or don’t fall for him, he’s not worth it.

In the midst of the Labour Party Conference going on this week, Shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper made a stand for having mandatory sex education in all schools for both young men and women and "including zero tolerance of violence in relationships" (BBC news).

In breaking news this week it has been announced that the lawful definition of domestic violence is in the process of being broadened to include teenagers aged 16-18 as opposed to only people in “adult relationships.”

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Since 2004, Tender has delivered a unique model of healthy relationship education to over 200 secondary schools and pupil referral units across Greater London. Tender is now seeking to roll-out this model at a national level. Tender has secured funding from a consortium of funders to pilot our first national partnership model, “Tender Relationships." "Tender Relationships” will be delivered by a formal partnership of five organisations in five regions of the UK, including Tender.

On July 2nd, we launched our long awaited Tender Choice Project. This is a youth developed interactive resource which helps audiences to explore healthy and unhealthy relationships. In each of the six sections, a scene is played out involving a difficult and unhealthy event in a relationship. The audience can choose what the characters do next and explore the different endings.

Several months ago, our director Susie McDonald decided that Tender should sign up for the British 10K. From the comfort of the office, with the race seeming very far away, six trustees and staff members were persuaded to join in.