RSHE audit toolkit: secondary - being safe
DfE: statutory guidance on relationships and sex education (RSE) and health education
Being safe - outcomes from statutory document
Pupils should know:
- the concepts of, and laws relating to, sexual consent, sexual exploitation, abuse, grooming, coercion, harassment, rape, domestic abuse, forced marriage, honour-based violence and FGM, and how these can affect current and future relationships.
- how people can actively communicate and recognise consent from others, including sexual consent, and how and when consent can be withdrawn (in all contexts, including online).
Addressing misogyny, toxic masculinity and social media influence
PSHE: Addressing misogyny, toxic masculinity and social media influence through PSHE education
Equip pupils with the skills and strategies to recognise and challenge discriminatory behaviours and attitudes.
Brook : Countering online misogyny in the classroom
FGM
Brook: Female genital mutilation (FGM)
Action Aid UK: Female genital mutilation (FGM) teaching resources
National FGM Centre - Key Stage 3 lesson, PowerPoint and guidance
PSHE Association: Keeping safe: FGM lesson plans
PSHE Association and Freedom Charity: forced marriage and FGM
Sexual harassment
Mentally Healthy Schools: Sexual harassment lesson plan
Brook: What is sexual harassment?
BBC i-Player: Is this sexual harassment?
Social experiment hosted by journalist and presenter Ben Zand in which a group of people come together to try to understand what constitutes sexual harassment.
YouTube: Is this sexual harassment?
A three-part drama series about sexual harassment at work, designed for schools to build a lesson around.
Grooming
NSPCC teaching resources about positive relationships. It's Not OK reinforces the importance of building and maintaining positive relationships and recognising and responding to behaviour relating to: online safety, grooming, sexting, harmful sexual behaviour, child sexual abuse child sexual exploitation.
Brook: Child sexual exploitation (CSE): Faith’s story
Consent
Teaching about consent and healthy relationship behaviours counters messages that normalise unhealthy relationship behaviours.
PSHE Association: FREE guidance
PSHE Association lesson packs (members only) KS3-5
‘Relationship Expectations’ lessons from the BBFC that explore media influence:
BBC: Making choices: sex, relationships and BBFC age ratings KS3
Relationship abuse
Alice Ruggles Trust relationship safety resource
Developed in collaboration with, and quality assured by, the PSHE Association. This consisted of two lesson plans aimed at young people aged 14-16 aiming to raise their understanding of healthy and unhealthy relationship behaviours, how to manage unwanted attentions, and how to support a friend who is experiencing stalking or coercive behaviours.
Three revised and new lessons covering:
- Identifying and managing unhealthy relationship behaviours
- Recognising and managing unwanted attention
- Recognising inappropriate behaviour and seeking support
The resources are available on the PSHE website:
Brook: Abuse in relationships and domestic violence
One of several short videos shown on TV. Powerful dramatisation of an abusive teen relationship appropriate for lesson use (13-18).
Free teaching resources are available on sexting, consent and preventing relationship abuse from the Home Office’s Disrespect NoBody campaign. The Home Office has worked with the PSHE association to develop the materials. These discussion guides and lesson plans support the Home Office Disrespect NoBody campaign, aimed at preventing abuse in teenage relationships. They're designed to help pupils understand and maintain healthy relationships, learn about consent and how to deal with controlling behaviour, violence and abuse.
NSPCC: Love Life: resources for young people with learning disabilities
The films and supporting resources are aimed at young people aged 11 to 25 to help them learn strategies for staying safe as they grow up and gain independence. They enable adults to start conversations with young people about: feelings, privacy and boundaries, friendship, different kinds of love, online safety.
Mentally Healthy Schools: Coercive control lesson plan
This lesson from BBC Teach is designed for use with students over 15, and explores the topic of coercive control and controlling relationships.
Archived 2016. Relevant and useful resources including online risks. Slight adaptations to include the newer online risks would be easy to insert.
Every care has been taken to ensure the information and any recommendations in the toolkit are accurate at the time of publishing. Schools must make their own judgements when using these resources and always risk assess with their pupils in mind.
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