Calls for ‘healthy relationship’ lessons for kids, after 75 women killed in domestic homicides last year

Campaigners call for all primary school children taught healthy relationships and consent before social media shapes their ideas.

Campaigners are calling for ‘healthy relationships’ to be taught to primary school-aged children as part of efforts to tackle domestic abuse.

The call came at a protest outside Parliament yesterday, where domestic abuse charity Refuge highlighted that 75 women were killed in domestic homicides in the year ending March 2025.

Former Love Island star Zara McDermott joined the demonstration alongside reality stars Georgia Harrison and The Traitors contestant Ash Bibi. They stood beside a bright pink door marked with the number 75 as part of Refuge’s Home Is Where the Hurt Is campaign.

‘Start planting the seeds of consent from when children are very young’

Zara told protesters that education needs to start early. ‘We need to start educating children as young as primary school age about healthy relationships,’ she said.