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Guidance: Teacher training: being safe

Department For Education

May 5
12:28 2023

Being safe teacher training module

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This training session supports the new statutory:

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.

When planning your curriculum, consider how you will link these topics.

Being safe is closely related to:

Published 16 March 2021
Last updated 5 May 2023 +show all updates
  1. 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.

  2. First published.

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