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Anti-violence plan for children

Posted November 26, 2008 09:08:00
Updated November 26, 2008 09:07:00

A Federal Government agency is developing a plan for anti-violence education programs for children.

Libby Lloyd chairs the National Council to Reduce Violence Against Women and their Children and spoke at a seminar in Adelaide last night.

Ms Lloyd says the plan outlines ways to change the way school children think about relationships, to prevent them entering abusive ones later in life.

"As we've gone around the country we've been talking with people about what age that would mean and many are saying high school and then they're saying junior high school, saying university, but we're even into people saying we need to work with playgroups, so we'd be looking at doing a lot around education and better understanding," she said.

"To make sure that we offer perpetrators of violence those sort of services at a very very early stage in their lives and this is going down to you know kids bullying in schools, right through to using violence in their homes."

Tags: domestic-violence, bullying, preschools, primary-education, children, sa, adelaide-5000