Pol-ED is a programme that enables schools to deliver a series of pre-planned lessons to their pupils, enable forces to engage with schools through a separate of pre-planned lessons and assemblies, and enables local authorities and criminal justice partners to facilitate the delivery of similar pre-planned lessons in their youth settings. The aim of Pol-ED is to create a world where children are safe, and to empower them to shape a positive, inclusive and lawful society for everyone. Pol-ED has been created by West Yorkshire Police and West Yorkshire Combined Authority.

Pol-ED offers police forces a range of free resources that can be used for educational purposes and schools a range of lessons, assemblies and assessment resources that are mapped out against the PSHE curriculum. The lessons have been created by subject matter experts and are quality assured by Police Officers in specialist departments to ensure all legalities are correct. As well as meeting statutory requirements of the RSHE (Relationship, Sex, Health and Education), Pol-Ed covers subjects that may otherwise not be covered in other PSHE schemes but are vital for children to understand. 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.