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What is Pol-Ed?

Pol-Ed is a full PSHE programme (EYFS to KS5) available in purchasing force areas, which is fully aligned to statutory RSHE guidance and wider PSHE objectives. Pol-Ed includes lessons, assemblies, assessment resources, and curriculum documentation to fully support schools in keeping pupils safe.

Pol-Ed for Local Authorities

Local Authorities in a force-purchasing area are able to provide access to free Pol-Ed Resources for community organisations to deliver Youth inputs across a range of settings, such as: Family Hubs, Youth Clubs and Registered Care Homes. The LA platform provides local authorities the ability to preview Pol-Ed school resources, reports where they can view school usage by their LA area and individual schools.

Pol-Ed has a range of reporting capabilities. The reporting tool can collate a downloadable report to show the following:

Engagement

How many lessons have been delivered.

Coverage

Which establishment they have been delivered at within their LA

Impact

How many participants have received these inputs

Resources for your community

Pol-Ed Youth Inputs are created by educational experts and quality assured by specialist Police Officers and partners, providing a wide range of inputs and delivery notes.

The inputs can be delivered to individuals, or small or large groups, as a one of or a planned prevention journey. They are organised into age-specific groups, appropriate for a range of young audiences.

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How can Forces use Pol-Ed?

  1. Pol-Ed offers Forces a range of resources that can be used for educational purposes.
  2. Pol-Ed Schools offers a range of lessons, assemblies and assessment resources that are mapped out against the PSHE Programs of Study.
  3. The school resources must be given to schools for free in conjunction with the Pol-Ed contract.
  4. Our lessons have been created by subject matter experts and are quality assured by Police Officers in specialist departments to ensure all legalities are correct.
  5. As well as meeting statutory requirements of the RSHE (Relationship, Sex, Health Education), Pol-Ed covers subjects that may otherwise not be covered in other PSHE schemes but are vital for children to understand.
  6. Pol-Ed Police inputs provide a range of inputs to be given by Officers to students as assemblies or small group inputs.
  7. Pol-Ed ‘Intervention 22’ inputs can be delivered to young people who find themselves on the periphery of crime as part of an Outcome 22 finalisation or other Police disposals such as community resolutions.
  8. Pol-Ed Cadets will offer a fully resourced scheme of work for the cadets program.
  9. All Pol-Ed deliveries can be tracked showing when and where they have taken place.

The Benefits for Children in Your Community

Pol-Ed meets the 2025 statutory RSHE guidance and aligns with Keeping Children Safe in Education and national policing priorities. Our resources are also mapped against PSHE Programme of Study.

Youth Inputs

Youth Inputs provide opportunities for CYP to be more informed on a range of topic areas that can impact themselves, their peers and the wider community


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Facilitator Support

A range of resources are available to support your delivery including activities and delivery notes



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Created by experts

Our resources are carefully designed by subject matter experts, and reviewed by subject specific Police Officers when required.


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Pol-Ed is a West Yorkshire Police education programme aimed at different phases of intervention for children in order to keep them safe.

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The LA platform provides local authorities the ability to preview Pol-Ed school resources, reports where they can view school usage by their LA area and individual schools. In addition to this, Pol-Ed Youth Inputs will be available for use by community groups and care settings.

Pol-Ed has a range of reporting capabilities. The reporting tool can collate a downloadable report to show the following:

How many lessons have been delivered.

Which establishment they have been delivered in within their LA

How many participants have received these inputs.

Resources for Schools

Our free school resources are designed to make teaching as simple as possible. Each lesson comes with an easy-to-follow plan and guidance where needed. Resources are organised by year group to support a spiral curriculum, but you’ll have full access to everything, giving you the flexibility to teach in the way that works best for your school.

Pol-Ed resources are split into 4 topic areas

Each topic includes lessons that give pupils essential knowledge aligned with statutory RSHE, Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSiE), and national safeguarding priorities. Our aim is to ensure pupils have the understanding they need to make informed, confident decisions in everyday life.

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Relationships

We cover healthy, respectful relationships, personal, family, and professional, across all stages of life. This includes all statutory relationships content outlined in the 2025 RSHE guidance.

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Keeping Safe

This topic area covers lesson themes including the role of emergency services, what can be perceived as anti social, Criminal exploitation, addiction and much more.

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Understanding the law

Our lessons cover key laws to help pupils understand legislation in modern Britain, such as the Equality Act 2010, and explore how aspects of the legal system work, including the age of criminal responsibility. This also supports schools in promoting Fundamental British Values.

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Wellbeing

Our lessons help pupils understand how to care for their physical and emotional health, advocate for their well-being, and navigate the changes they’ll experience as they grow. All content is fully aligned with the 2025 statutory RSHE guidance.

Academic Research

At Pol-Ed, we want to ensure that all our resources are fit for purpose and meet the needs of Forces, schools, and children. During early 2023 a short research program of Pol-Ed was undertaken by Huddersfield University, some of the findings are below:

Throughout 2024 and into 2025, a new research project of Pol-Ed will be undertaken by Huddersfield University. Throughout the research, both teachers and pupils will be spoken to and asked a range of questions about the Pol-Ed resources. With the intention of learning about our scheme’s good points, areas for improvement but also the impact the lessons and assemblies have had on them.

Teachers
  • Increased confidence in delivering material (part. complex or sensitive issues)
  • 'Quality assurance' of police involvement in materials
  • Greater student retention of information.
  • Positive feedback.
School Communities
  • Raised awareness of various community issues (e.g. alcohol, cyber-related crime).
  • Helps breakdown misperceptions (e.g. learned in home).
  • Greater understanding and appreciation of police role in community
Students
  • Increased knowledge and awareness of risk.
  • Greater awareness of issues in communities - also demonstrated how to keep themselves safe.
  • More knowledge of role of police in society, more positive perceptions, 'trusted people'.

Testimonials from our forces

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I have been teaching PSHE for over 20 years and these are the best set of resources that have ever come out and they are free and so up to date and relevant.

Mrs R. Vernon
Woodhouse Grove School - Bradford

What is Pol-Ed?

Pol-Ed is a range of PSHE related resources for schools and educational inputs for police forces and Local Authorities to deliver in a school or other settings.

Who is it for?

Pol-Ed is for a local authority who wants to work closely with our partners in education with the purpose of keeping our children safer and also use educational inputs to prevent children from becoming involved in crime.

Who has commissioned it?

Pol-Ed has been commissioned and developed by West Yorkshire Police to support its partnership working strategy and help keep our young people safe. The original Pol-Ed programme was funded by successful bids for money from the Proceeds of Crime fund.

‘Proceeds of crime’ refers to the assets, funds and property gained whilst undertaking criminal activity. Authorities such as The Crown Prosecution Service have the power to confiscate these assets thanks to the Proceeds of Crime Act.

How much will it cost?

The cost of Pol-Ed varies by individual Forces based on the population size of that Force area. 

Pol-Ed could be covered through funding from POCA, PCC, Safer Street Fund or various other grants and income streams.

For price information and advice around funding methods please email Pol.Ed@westyorkshire.police.uk.

How do we support the delivery of resources?

The Pol-Ed team supports the roll out of Pol-Ed within a Force area and produce CPD videos for teachers, Officers and other trusted partners to broaden their knowledge and support them with delivery of difficult topic areas.

Can resources be downloaded?

The Pol-Ed resources are designed to be delivered online from the website; this ensures that you are getting the most up to date version of the lesson available. As legislation / education guidance changes, the Pol-Ed team will update any lessons which are affected to keep the content legally correct and relevant.

Can I suggest an input?

The Pol-Ed team are keen to have user input and suggestions for lessons. Please visit our suggestions section where you can make lesson topic suggestions to the Pol-Ed team, or email us at Pol.Ed@westyorkshire.police.uk.

Can I track usage?

An LA can track both usage of Pol-Ed education resources by schools for individual lesson usage and groups of lessons usage. They can also track the delivery of Youth Inputs within their LA area by third party partners.

I have forgotten my Log in / Password.

Please make contact with your force administrator who will be able to provide you with your log on details or set you up on Pol-Ed. If your Pol-Ed manager has moved roles and you no longer have access to the Pol-Ed website, please email us at Pol.Ed@westyorkshire.police.uk

How do I get a Pol-Ed Log in?

If your force is already registered with Pol-Ed, please make contact with your force’s administrator who will be able to set you up on the Pol-Ed site and provide you with a Log in and Password. If your force is not registered with Pol-Ed, please contact us at Pol.Ed@westyorkshire.police.uk.

Who can use Pol-Ed?

The Pol-Ed school resources are designed for delivery by teachers only.

Police Forces have access to the Pol-Ed Police Inputs and Intervention 22s, which can be delivered by Officers or other Police staff.

Local Authorities have access to a range of Pol-Ed Youth Inputs, which are designed to be delivered by trusted third parties.

How do third parties gain access to Pol-Ed?

Third party access to the Pol-Ed Youth Inputs is granted by the LA overseeing the area in which the third party operates. The decision to approve or decline your access lies with the LA. Third parties should register their interest and wait for LA approval.

Do you collaborate with other forces, or is everything created by West Yorkshire Police?

Pol-Ed have collaborated with other Forces and other partners during the production of our resources.

We would like to take this opportunity to thank those Forces and partners for their time and expertise.

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Schools across Avon and Somerset, Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Cleveland, Cumbria, Greater Manchester, Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, Humberside, Kent, Lancashire, Leicestershire, Merseyside, Norfolk, Northamptonshire, Northumbria, South Yorkshire, Suffolk, West Midlands and West Yorkshire have access to our free service.

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