Consent

A lesson plan developed by Gloucestershire Healthy Living and Learning (GHLL) accompanies the video, and is available to all schools and colleges in the county, as part of the Gloucestershire PSHE curriculum. GHLL, funded by Public Health and GCC, provide support for all schools and colleges across our county to help support staff, children and their families to improve their lives through making positive choices around physical, emotional and mental wellbeing. 

Gloucestershire kids taught consent with film produced by Aardman : Gloucestershire Healthy Living and Learning (ghll.org.uk)

Give and Get Resource for Key Stage 3 & 4

This resource for schools has been written by Gloucestershire Healthy Living and Learning (GHLL) in partnership with the Education and learning Sub group of the Gloucestershire Safeguarding Children Board (GSCB). It follows on from the Teenage Relationship Abuse teaching pack and is designed to answer additional questions regarding consent. The issues addressed in both of the resources are difficult but the lessons tackle them in a sensitive and thought provoking way, leading to debate and further understanding of what makes a healthy relationship.

There is much work going on throughout the county for professionals on Child Sexual Exploitation, Domestic Abuse issues surrounding Honour Based Violence. It is important that we provide a resource for young people to recognise when a relationship that they are a part of might not be as safe as they first thought and to provide them with information in order to keep themselves safe.

There are very recent changes in the law and now those between 16 and 18 can be victims of Domestic Abuse in their own right. The New Serious Crimes Bill also considers coercive control as an abusive category; police are looking at how to record what we mean by consent in criminal cases. These are important issues which young people are keen to discuss.

Curriculum lessons such as these not only help young people to understand and discuss difficult issues, they also enable the school to pick up individual concerns from young people and help those who might find themselves in an abusive relationship as early as possible. This forms part of the school’s offer of early help under safeguarding and so is in line with the requirements under the new Government Guidance Keeping Children Safe in Education 2014.

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Shore

Shore was launched in 2023 to provide a safe and anonymous place for young people to get help and support. The aim of this website is to prevent harmful sexual behaviours among young people.

It’s for anyone who:

• has questions about healthy sexual relationships
• wants to change their own behaviour
• is looking for reliable information to help them respond to someone else’s behaviour

Topic guides online range from:

• Enthusisatic Consent
• Sex and the law
• Dealing with regrets about harmful sexual behaviour
• Safe spaces to learn about sex
• Online sexual behaviour

Visit their website for more information.