The short-term impacts of effective whole school RRE include challenging attitudes supportive of violence, promoting respectful behaviour, countering gender stereotypes, and strengthening institutional commitment to gender equality.

The long-term benefits of RRE include reduced gender-based bullying and harassment, more gender-equitable school cultures, and the dismantling of social and gender norms supportive of violence.

Effective implementation of RRE in schools can lead to:

• improved student classroom behaviour, and student–student and teacher–student relationships
• modelling of positive attitudes and behaviours
• increased student knowledge and confidence in discussing domestic violence, gender equality and respectful relationships
• more positive student attitudes towards gender equality and respectful relationships
• improved student skills to recognise discrimination and challenge gender stereotypes
• enhanced teacher understanding of the need for effective RRE
• development of staff gender equality and respectful relationships policies and procedures.