Teacher training: being safe
Practical training materials for primary and secondary schools to use to train staff to teach about being safe.
Applies to England
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This training session supports the new statutory:
- relationships education for primary schools
- relationships and sex education (RSE) for secondary schools
The module contains key knowledge and facts to help teachers understand what they must teach. It includes information on:
- boundaries, privacy and feeling unsafe
- asking for help and support
- consent and communicating consent
- sexual consent
- abuse
- rape and sexual assault
- honour-based violence and forced marriage
- female genital mutilation (FGM)
- grooming
- coercion
- harassment
These slides should be adapted to suit individual school context. This can include adding your own videos and resources to make your teaching training sessions more visual and interactive.
Related topics
When planning your curriculum, consider how you will link these topics.
Being safe is closely related to:
- respectful relationships (it is good practice to teach this topic first as it provides the framework for good relationships and being safe)
- internet safety and harms
- online relationships (primary), online and media (secondary)
- mental wellbeing
Last updated 5 May 2023 + show all updates
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Updated the 'being safe teacher training module' to reflect new legislation to change the minimum age at which people can get married or enter into a civil partnership.
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First published.