Let’s talk Period – Period Education

Teaching young people about consent equips them to have more safe, ethical and enjoyable sexual experiences. Our four-part course supports you to help young people to understand the law, the gender norms, stereotypes and cultural factors which may affect their ability to consent and supports them to communicate about consent with their partners.

This is a series of short modules intended to cover the basics of safeguarding.

This session explores how professionals can ensure a safe emotional space for young people in an RSE setting, It looks at a range of difficult questions young people might ask and appropriate ways in which professionals can respond,

This session has been designed to help professionals (teachers, trainers, youth workers, clinicians etc.) understand the new and changing landscape for young people in relation to the online world. It explores current trends, potential harms and how to better support young people to be safe online.

The resource uses a traffic light tool to categorise the sexual behaviours of young people, to help professionals, make decisions about safeguarding children and young people, assess and respond appropriately to sexual behaviour in children and young people, understand healthy sexual development and distinguish it from harmful behaviour. By identifying sexual behaviours as green, amber or red, professionals across different agencies can work to the same criteria when making decisions and protect children and young people with a unified approach. This resource has been designed to help professionals think through their decisions and does not replace organisational procedures or assessment frameworks.

Brook’s nationally recognised Sexual Behaviours Traffic Light Tool and training provides a highly visible, multi-agency response that helps professionals to identify, understand and respond appropriately to sexual behaviours in young people. The training equips professionals to make consistent and informed decisions that neither stigmatise nor criminalise young people, and by using the Tool to identify sexual behaviours as green, orange or red, professionals across different agencies can work to the same criteria when making decisions and protect children and young people with a unified approach. Course participants will learn about healthy sexual development, understand key laws relating to sexual behaviour and gain knowledge on enabling robust and meaningful conversations around harmful sexual behaviours that cause concern. Both the Tool and the course are intended to complement existing safeguarding processes and should not be considered a replacement for organisational safeguarding procedures or assessment frameworks. 

This course will empower non-healthcare professionals with the confidence to initiate sensitive, inclusive and factual conversations about sexual health, and to signpost and support people to access local sexual health services.

This pack has been produced for carers and professionals to assist them in Talking to Care Experienced young people about sexual health. The pack provides, Planning a training event guidance, an overview of the resource and training, a workshop plan, guidance on how to deliver the training, training activity plans, further reading.

This one day programme looks to support those who will be teaching mandatory RSE, It looks at the context, the government guidance, values, practice, topics, curriculum, young people’s development and creating safe spaces to explore sensitive topics such as contraception, consent and healthy relationships.