Course Description
Covering: What sorts of boundaries are appropriate in friendships with peers and others (including in a digital context). The concept of privacy and the implications of it for both children and adults. It is not always right to keep secrets if they relate to being safe. Each person’s body belongs to them. The differences between appropriate, inappropriate, unsafe physical, and other contact.
Course Content
Three hour interactive webinar or classroom delivery comprised of:
- Pre-session reading
- Workbook to be completed with delivery
- PowerPoint of relevant information
- case studies relevant to sector participants are from
- opportunity for discussion
Delivery
Online and face to face.
Who's It For?
Education Sector.
Learning Objectives
To support adults working with children to meet the requirements of the ‘Being Safe’ section of the Department for Education’s statutory guidance of Relationship Education for Primary School Age Children
Explaining Boundaries
- what sorts of boundaries are appropriate in friendships with peers and others (including in a digital context)
Body Boundaries & Types of Touch
- what sorts of boundaries are appropriate in friendships with peers and others (including in a digital context)
- about the concept of privacy and the implications of it for both children and adults; including that it is not always right to keep secrets if they relate to being safe
- that each person’s body belongs to them, and the differences between appropriate and inappropriate or unsafe physical, and other, contact
- how to report concerns or abuse, and the vocabulary and confidence needed to do so
Communicating & Acknowledging Consent
- what sorts of boundaries are appropriate in friendships with peers and others (including in a digital context)
- about the concept of privacy and the implications of it for both children and adults; including that it is not always right to keep secrets if they relate to being safe
- that each person’s body belongs to them, and the differences between appropriate and inappropriate or unsafe physical, and other, contact
Being Assertive
- that each person’s body belongs to them, and the differences between appropriate and inappropriate or unsafe physical, and other, contact
- how to respond safely and appropriately to adults they may encounter (in all contexts, including online) whom they do not know
Making Safety Plans
- how to recognise and report feelings of being unsafe or feeling bad about any adult
- how to ask for advice or help for themselves or others, and to keep trying until they are heard,
- how to report concerns or abuse, and the vocabulary and confidence needed to do so
- where to get advice, for example family, school or other sources
