RSE: A curriculum to meet the Statutory RSE Guidance (secondary)

Julie Wilkinson

Julie has over 20 years’ skills and experience of supportive intervention and prevention for vulnerable children and young people in the UK, Europe and the Caribbean.

She is Director of‘Brave the Rage’ an Anti-Bullying and Anger Management Organisation, that provides pastoral care, education-based workshops in the UK and Overseas to pupils, parents and professionals.

Presently delivering training workshops in schools for the Barbados Ministry of Education, Permanent Secretary of Anguilla and soon the Permanent Secretary of St Lucia. Brave the Rage helps to provide solutions to bullying, anger, stress and anxiety with a ‘Parents and Professionals’ Online Audio-Visual programme “The 5 Steps: Solutions to Personal Wellbeing. A ‘Krumpled Kirsty’ Anti Bullying and Anger Management Story Book for Early Years in all Caribbean Book Shops, as life skills for a robust, resilient future.

Since training as a ‘Domestic Violence Crisis Counsellor’ in New York for Brooklyn Criminal Court and Sanctuary for Families, returning to London to become a qualified mediator and providing solutions to conflict resolution, for social housing neighbors in dispute.

Julie then ran 3 large Housing Associations’ Community Outreach Programme, entitled ‘Life’s Better Together’ and progressed to the youth offending world, providing numerous outreach programmes to all prolific young offenders in South London.  

Sustainability and transferable of such experience and skills included overseeing Lambeth’s LA ‘Youth Council’ (strategic and operational co-ordination) including Peer Inspection, Peer Education and Youth Parliament for all children and young people, across the Borough.

Running Lambeth LA for Domestic Violence is one of her greatest achievements, training 8000 staff, changing Lambeth Councils HPU Policies to ensure victims of DV receive urgent priority for accommodation, raising of funds for Lambeth’s only DV Support Centre and the co-ordination of Lambeth’s Domestic Violence Forum.

After spearheading the NCB’s UK ‘Peer Inspection’ Programme, she became Kidscape’s ‘Bullying Intervention Training’ Co-Ordinator for England and Regional Trainer for London and the South East. On behalf of the Department of Education, she ensured over 125,000 teacher training programmes were rolled out in the UK within two years.

Clients now include Premier League, BSA, The Royal Ballet School, GDST, ISA, Godwin Lawson Foundation, Dukes Education, Nomura Bank, GSA, Lancashire CC, LSBU, Liverpool LA, Swiss Learning, Bromley Council, Oxford International College, Lancashire Probation & Police, Merchiston Castle- Scotland, Barbados Ministry of Education, Permeant Education Secretary of Anguilla, Permeant Education Secretary of St. Lucia, British High Commissioner for Barbados and the Canadian High Commissioner of Barbados.