Netflix has announced it has made its haunting crime drama series Adolescence “available to all secondary schools across the UK”. 

Warning: Discussions of violence against women and girls and spoilers for Netflix’s Adolescence ahead.

The hit series, created by Jack Thorne and Stephen Graham and directed by Philip Barantini, centres around 13-year-old Jamie Miller (Owen Cooper), who is accused of murdering fellow student Katie Leonard (Emilia Holliday).

Aside from its impressive writing and gripping acting – including Erin Doherty’s “daunting” one-shot scene – the four-part drama tackles important topics, including online misogyny, male violence against women and girls and the judicial system in the UK. 

On Monday (31 March), the streaming site announced that it will be making the series available for free to secondary schools across the UK via Into Film+, which dubs itself as “the UK’s leading charity for film in education”. 

NEW: From today we are making Adolescence available to all secondary schools across the UK through Into Film+.

Additionally, healthy relationships charity Tender will produce guides and resources for teachers, parents and carers to help navigate conversations around the series.

— Netflix UK & Ireland (@NetflixUK) March 31, 2025

The organisation has also distributed a guide for teachers to support lessons on the drama “in a sensitive and age-appropriate way to support conversations in secondary schools around its themes”. 

Fiona Evans, CEO of Into Film said: “Into Film is proud to be partnering with Netflix to make Adolescence freely available for teachers to use in secondary schools, via our established schools streaming service, Into Film+. 

“We are sure that schools will choose to use this incredible drama in a variety of ways that will encourage teachers, students and parents to continue the important conversations that the drama has already prompted in homes across the UK.”

The series has already sparked important conversations about misogynistic content on social media and how engaging in it can affect young boys and men. 

A new report from Amnesty shows that less than half of Gen Z respondents say that social media is a safe space due to the overwhelming misogynistic content they are shown. Even series star Faye Marsay spoke out about leaving social media after being subjected to sexual assault threats during her time on Game of Thrones.

In the wake of the series, authorities are urging parents to be aware of the content their children are engaging with online, in particular, pornography and misogynistic messages on social media.

There are worries that young people watching such content – like that of Andrew Tate  – could “normalise” degrading, aggressive behaviours and contribute to gender-based violence, homophobia and transphobia. 

“Jamie’s parents say it best when, in the final episode, they ask each other ‘could we have done more?’ and agree that they could,” Guernsey Police digital safety officer Laura Simpson wrote in Guernsey Press.

Adolescence is available to stream on Netflix now.

If this story has affected you, you can call the National Domestic Abuse Helpline (Refuge) for free on 0808 2000 247 or the DSA Helpline (Northern Ireland) on 0808 802 1414.

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