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Effective, accurate and age-appropriate communication around relationships, growing up and sexual health leads to better outcomes for children and young people (RSHP as part of a happy, healthy life)

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All adults delivering RSHP education including parents & carers have access to relevant and high-quality training, resources & support that take a rights-based approach (Supporting professionals, parents & carers)

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Accurate, consistent, contemporary and inclusive education around RSHP at home, school & in the community is right for all young people (The rights of CYP - UNCRC)

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the Chat is a conversation with parents and carers about where, what, when, why and how children and young people learn about relationships, sexual health and parenthood.

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Communicating With Children and Young People About Growing Up, Relationships and Sexual Health – E-Learning Units

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Sexual Health & Blood Borne Viruses Tayside

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Speakeasy E-Learning Units

This E-learning module is designed for anyone who has a role, or who will have a role, in supporting young people around growing up, relationships and sexual health.

It has been created by the NHS Tayside Speakeasy programme. Speakeasy provides free, community based courses for parents, carers and young people's workers to encourage positive communication around sex, relationships and growing up. You can read more about this HERE

The module is split into several units - the learner can complete as many or as few of these as they choose.

A certificate is available for the successful completion of each unit.

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Communicating With Children & Young People About Growing Up | Sexual Health & Blood Borne Viruses Tayside

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The NHS Tayside Speakeasy programme provides free courses to encourage positive communication around sex & relationships.

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Sexual Health & Blood Borne Viruses Tayside

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Educating Young People | Sexual Health & Blood Borne Viruses Tayside

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A parent or carer’s role in educating children about sexual health is a vital one. Learn more about how to approach the topic.

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Trans Inclusion after the Supreme Court Decision

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Trans Inclusion after the Supreme Court Decision

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Good Law Projected

Provided by Barry Jordan - LGBT Youth Scotland

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Trans inclusion after the Supreme Court decision: FAQs | Good Law Project

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MakeitGood Research with young people (Tayside)

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MakeitGood Research with young people (Tayside)

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Sexual Health & Blood Borne Viruses Tayside

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Guidance & Resources | Sexual Health & Blood Borne Viruses Tayside

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Training, guidelines & support for people who work or volunteer in the field of sexual health & BBVs. Explore all resources.

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Sexual Health & Blood Borne Viruses Tayside

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Professional Training | Sexual Health & Blood Borne Viruses Tayside

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We deliver training to help develop a confident & competent workforce across Tayside’s clinical & non-clinical workers.

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Conundrum (CONdom & CONtraception) Glasgow Uni

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Conundrum (CONdom & CONtraception) Glasgow Uni

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CONUNDRUM (CONdom & CONtraception UNDerstandings: Researching Uptake & Motivations)is an ongoing collaboration between sexual health stakeholders - including young people, policy makers, practitioners and researchers - who are committed to improving sexual health among young people in Scotland. Details of the original CONUNDRUM study (2019-2020) and CONUNDRUM Action (currently underway in 2022) are available below.

You can also find project updates on twitter at #ProjectCONUNDRUM
PHASE 1: The original CONUNDRUM study (2019-2020)
CONUNDRUM (CONdom & CONtraception UNDerstandings: Researching Uptake and Motivations) was commissioned in response to growing concern among sexual health decision-makers about declining use of condoms and other effective forms of contraception among young people in Scotland. Recognising that current policy responses were fragmented across different localities, and often not leading to increased uptake of condom and contraceptive services by young people, three NHS Scotland health boards and the Scottish Government co-funded the CONUNDRUM project to provide insight into the social context shaping young people's use (and non-use) of condoms and contraception, and to make recommendations for sexual health policy and services.

Study research questions and methods were co-developed with 100+ sexual health stakeholders - including young people, practitioners and policymakers. Over 2000 16-24 year olds across Scotland shared their views and experiences of condoms and contraception in an online survey and focus groups. We then worked with stakeholders to co-develop nine policy recommendations based on the findings.

All CONUNDRUM outputs can be found on publications section of this page, including the full report and its executive summary.
PHASE 2: CONUNDRUM Action (2022-present)
Building on recommendations co-developed in Phase 1, CONUNDRUM Action is a participatory project aiming to increase young people's meaningful involvement in sexual health policymaking and service improvement in Scotland. The project brings together an Action Group that is collaborating on developing tools and expertise to support and sustain a culture of young people's meaningful involvement in improving sexual health in Scotland. Action Group members include young people living across Scotland, sexual health decision-makers in Scottish Government, NHS Scotland, and third sector, and researchers.

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MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit

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CONUNDRUM (CONdom & CONtraception UNDerstandings: Researching Uptake & Motivations)is an ongoing collaboration between sexual health stakeholders - including young people, policy makers, practitioners and researchers - who are committed to improving sexual health among young people in Scotland. Details of the original CONUNDRUM study (2019-2020) and CONUNDRUM Action (currently underway in 2022) are available below.

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Eden Court's Queer Youth Arts Collective is an online creative space for Highland-based LGBTI+ young people aged 13 to 18. We meet once a week on Zoom to come together as community, create, and connect. We aim to build a welcoming and inclusive space that queer and questioning young people and allies can make their own.

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STI Safer Sex Campaign | Public Health Scotland News

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In Scotland, cases of sexually transmitted infections (STIs), including gonorrhoea and chlamydia, are increasing among people under the age of 25. The number of infections has more than doubled since 2017. That increase means that 1 in every 200 people aged under 25 has gonorrhoea. If left untreated, it can lead to long term health problems.

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cool2talk is not an emergency service. If you need an immediate response please contact Childline on 0800 1111 or the Samaritans

cool2talk provides a confidential service. When you use the site you do not have to provide personal information that identifies you.

Sometimes, if we're worried about your or someone else's immediate safety, we may need to get you help. If this is the case, we will use your IP address (a number used by your internet provider)and other information that you have provided to
get help to you.

We would like to reassure you that this would only happen if there was immediate risk of harm for you or someone else.

Read more HERE on our safeguarding & child protection procedures.

Please post a question on the site if you want more information

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Cool2Talk - A safe space for young people age 12 and over

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Sexual Health & Blood Borne Viruses Tayside

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Condoms | Sexual Health & Blood Borne Viruses Tayside

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Learn more about where you can get free condoms in Tayside, as well as how to use condoms correctly to stay safe.

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Tayside Sexual & Reproductive Health Services (SH Clinic)

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Tayside Sexual & Reproductive Health Services (SH Clinic)

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Supporting people to have healthy, positive sexual health and wellbeing including all aspects of blood borne virus prevention, testing, treatment and care.

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The Corner YP Health & Wellbeing service

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The Corner YP Health & Wellbeing service

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The Corner Dundee | Health & Wellbeing Services for Young People

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The Corner provides confidential support and advice for young people aged 11 to 19 (and up to 25 if vulnerable) living in Dundee.

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EasySRE RSE Relationships & Sex Education Films For Schools

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EasySRE Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) Films For Schools - Our films are designed with young people for young people.

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Sexual Consent: Do you get it? - Pause, Play, Stop

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Making sure you get and give active consent before having any kind of sex with another person really matters. If it's not your body, it's not your decision.

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Organisations/schools can register to distribute free condoms and receive training from the SHBBV MCN

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Sexual Health & Blood Borne Viruses Tayside

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Condom Distribution Scheme & CCard | Sexual Health & Blood Borne Viruses Tayside

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This scheme is open to organisations in Angus, Dundee, Perth & Kinross. To join, please fill in our form and return to us.

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CEOP Talks Relationships is an NCA-CEOP Education campaign, helping professionals to support secondary aged young people in building healthy relationships and protect them against child sexual abuse with 6 weeks of information and resources.

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Free resources, including printable handouts, to support safe and effective RSE.

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Parents and caregivers

Our research-based, 100% free courses for Parents of Tweens and Teens are designed to give parents and caregivers the tools to have critically important, meaningful discussions about pornography.

Educators

The Porn-Critical Sex Ed Curriculum gives educators science-backed, age-appropriate curricula to teach adolescents effective sex education that addresses porn's harms.

Professionals

We offer a vast compilation of helpful resources on the harms of porn to youth for advocates, academics, policymakers, and other professionals who work with tweens and teens.

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Through science-backed, robust courses and other resources, we help kids develop healthy, respectful views of sex and intimacy throughout their lives. Learn more.

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Sexual Health & Blood Borne Virus Managed Care Network Website

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Sexual Health & Blood Borne Virus Managed Care Network Website

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Sexual Health & Blood Borne Viruses Tayside

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Blood borne viruses

Blood-borne viruses or BBVs are hepatitis B, hepatitis C and Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). They are infections that can be transmitted from one person to another through direct contact of bodily fluids, especially blood.
Blood borne viruses
Sexual wellbeing

Sexual wellbeing includes feeling respected, comfortable, confident, autonomous, secure, and able to enjoy safe, healthy, respectful, consensual and pleasurable relationships and sexual interactions.
Sexual wellbeing
Harm reduction

Harm reduction is a set of practical strategies and ideas aimed at reducing the harms from using drugs.
Harm reduction

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Sexual Health & Blood Borne Viruses | Dundee, Perth & Angus

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Providing education and support for sexual wellbeing, harm reduction, and blood borne viruses prevention, including testing.

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Great Relationships and Sex Education | 200+ Activities for Educators

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Great Relationships and Sex Education is an innovative and accessible guide for educators who work with young people to create and deliver Relationships and Sex

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Bish Training - Sex & Relationships Education

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Description

As well as talking about porn this download resource pack enables conversations around self-esteem, body image, boundaries, pleasure, consent, communication, safer sex, sexual safety, the law, emotions, relationships, gender and sexual diversity and oppression.

"We have been using the planet porn with young people who have committed sexually harmful behaviour and I can honestly say it's been superb."

What's in the pack?

The pack contains a number of activities and resources which all come in a pdf and a powerpoint document: so you have the choice to print the resources out or use them as slides to teach with and to move the images around to suit.
Planet Porn Game
A straight forward card discussion game. Take it in turns to decide whether the statement belongs on 'Planet Earth' (real life sex) or 'Planet Porn' (porn sex) (or somewhere in between the two - which is most likely). Now with 42 cards! Each card has new and improved explanatory notes to aid discussion and learning. Also now easier to print.
Is It Legal, Is It Right?
This activity provides a brief factual analysis of current UK law around porn. It also presents various scenarios relating to porn which may be relevant to many young people, raising various ethical issues around sex tapes, watching porn under age and privacy.
NEW! Sexting Posters, Images and Handouts
Exclusive posters and handouts for you to use in conjunction with the other activities in the pack. Like the Bish Leaflets you can print your own as many times as you like. All the information that young people need to stay safe and make informed decisions (without scary moral panics).
Porn Challenge
This activity challenges people to think of ways to present sexy scenes and images which are safe, consensual, promote equality and diversity and don't make assumptions about who may be watching porn.
Dear Doctor Love
A problem page activity which explores relationship issues like trust, intimacy, boundaries, safety, jealousy, independence, self-esteem and communication through the medium of problems that a partner of a pornstar or glamour model might face.
NEW! Where Do People See Sexual Images
An activity exploring what we mean by 'sexual images', where people see them and what they might see. Great for opening up the conversation and for introducing Planet Porn.
NEW! Summary of the Evidence for Young People and Porn
Summary of the most authoritative reviews and research into exactly how many young people look at porn, what the effects might be and what they do with it.
Relationships and Sex Education
I wouldn't recommend this pack be used as a starting point with young people around RSE. For a complete, PSHE Association approved RSE course check out the free resources at DO... (which I was involved in writing) and also my new Consent Teaching Pack and Love, Innit my resource pack for teaching about relationships.

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Planet Porn - A teaching pack about porn, sex, sexuality and gender.

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As well as talking about porn this download resource pack enables conversations around self-esteem, body image, boundaries, pleasure, consent, communication, safer sex, sexual safety, the law, emotions, relationships, gender and sexual diversity and oppression. "We have been using the planet porn with young people who have committed sexually harmful behaviour and I can honestly say it's been superb."

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A Sex and Relationships Guide to Adolescence 

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A Sex and Relationships Guide to Adolescence 

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BISH UK

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A Sex and Relationships Education Guide to ‘Adolescence’

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Here’s another one of my sex and relationships education guides to.... This time it’s ‘Adolescence’.

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A summary of Relationships, Sexual Health and Parenthood (RSHP) resources

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A summary of Relationships, Sexual Health and Parenthood (RSHP) resources

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A summary of Relationships, Sexual Health and Parenthood (RSHP) resources

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Education Scotland is a Scottish Government executive agency responsible for supporting quality and improvement in Scottish education.

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Mentors in Violence Prevention (MVP) is a peer mentoring programme that gives young people the chance to explore and challenge the attitudes, beliefs and cultural norms that underpin all forms of gender-based violence in our society.

Exploring violence through a gendered lens, young people are aware of biases that exist within society and develop leadership skills in order for them to employ 'active bystander' theory. Young people explore the scope of violence and are motivated in challenging victim blaming.

The programme addresses a range of behaviours including physical violence, name-calling, sexting, coercive and controlling behaviour and harassment. Individuals are not looked on as potential victims or perpetrators but as empowered onlookers with the ability to support and challenge their peers whilst keeping themselves safe.

Visit the Mentors in Violence in Scottish schools website - to find out more including resources for MVP.

Background

Figures from the Scottish Government highlight the enduring and increasing problem of gender-based violence in Scottish society. There is additional evidence (see Barter, McCarry, Berridge and Evans (2009) Partner Exploitation and Violence in Teenage Intimate Relationships) that young people - particularly girls - encounter physical, emotional and sexual violence. The Mentors in Violence Prevention programme was introduced in Scottish schools in response to these issues.

MVP is featured in the preventing and responding to gender-based violence framework.

Find out more about MVP in the following short videos. The first introduces the MVP programme and the second explains the five core components.

Purpose

The MVP programme supports young people to positively influence the attitudes and behaviour of their peers to tackle the issue of gender-based violence. Following a pilot programme in Edinburgh and Inverclyde councils in 2012, it has since been introduced in all 32 local authorities across Scotland.

The impact

Evidence of the impact of MVP has been gathered through staff and pupil feedback, attitude questionnaires and focus groups, with both mentors and mentees reporting that they are more aware of the issues related to gender-based violence. In addition:

1. Staff report an increase in pupils who are ready to alert them to safety concerns, from a fight brewing, or a friend self-harming, to someone carrying a sharp object into school. This increased communication allows staff to be proactive and to put support in place as necessary.

2. Pupils and staff have related examples of pupils intervening on the school bus or in the community when they have witnessed violence or bullying. Pupils report that they are now aware of a variety of ways that they can intervene when witnessing behaviours that are detrimental to wellbeing.

3. Both pupils and staff refer to an improved ethos within school and a reduction of barriers between older and younger pupils. Mentors and staff identify a positive impact on mentors' confidence and the enhancement of a range of skills such as team-work and presentation skills. Staff suggested that leadership was a key quality developed by involvement in the programme.

4. Following staff training in MVP, there is a significant increase in the number of staff who feel that they have the necessary skills to educate others about gender-based violence. There is evidence of increased awareness of issues, an increase in those who believe that bystanders can make a difference, and a rise in the number of staff who thought that they would challenge gender-based violence.

How to use this resource to improve practice

The MVP programme can be used to help deliver many of the experiences and outcomes in Curriculum for Excellence, contributing to a culture of safety where learning can flourish. Practitioners can use the following questions to prompt discussion:

1. What strengths/areas for development are there in your school's current approach to reducing gender-based violence?

2. How could MVP support current approaches?

3. What needs of the school or community could this programme help address?

4. What might the barriers be in your establishment to adopting this programme? How might these barriers be overcome?

5. MVP promotes close partnership working. Who would you consider to be your main collaborative partners and how might you see them being involved?

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Education Scotland is a Scottish Government executive agency responsible for supporting quality and improvement in Scottish education.

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Equally Safe at School - preventing gender based violence

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Equally Safe at School - preventing gender based violence

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A whole school approach to preventing gender based violence

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ESAS was co-created by Rape Crisis Scotland and the University of Glasgow to support schools to build a positive culture in which staff and students work together to prevent GBV, and feel more confident and skilled in responding to incidents and disclosures of sexual harassment/violence.

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Are you being bullied?

If you are being bullied, or you are not ready to make a report to CEOP, you can talk to Childline anonymously online or on the phone - No worry is too big or too small.

Visit Childline

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Positive Masculinity | YouthLink Scotland

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Find out what it’s like to be a young man in Scotland with our research project Imagine a Man - exploring ideas around positive masculinity.

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Sexual Health | Autism Toolbox Autism Toolbox

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AMAZE - Age appropriate puberty and sex education videos

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AMAZE takes the awkward out of sex ed and growing up. Real info in fun, animated sex education videos that give you the answers you actually want to know.

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My Dangerous Loverboy | Lucy Faithfull Foundation

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A campaign and website aims at raising awareness of sexual exploitation and internal trafficking. It includes a short film and educational resource for use in schools and a music video.

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Resources For Professionals Working With Young People

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Resources, training courses, consultancy and service design for professionals working with young people in schools, youthwork or the mental health system

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Sexuality and Relationship Education for Children and Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorders 

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Sexuality and Relationship Education for Children and Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorders 

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Book - can be found outline to purchase

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Hey Girls period products - education & free period products

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Hey Girls period products - education & free period products

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Learn | Period Education For Schools, Parents & You | Hey Girls

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Comprehensive resources for teachers, parents and individuals to use. Helping you have conversations about periods with confidence.

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Check out this A4 designed by Adrienne Dale.

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Beat Eating Disorders Training for Professionals

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Beat Eating Disorders Training for Professionals

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Our CPD-accredited eating disorder Spotting the Signs training is for anyone working in secondary school, high school and post-primary professionals.