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Category: RSE

It keeps young people safe – Let’s make it mandatory

For #SHW23, we’re Playing It Safe. In this blog, Pippa Campbell from the Make it Mandatory campaign discusses how the extension of Relationship and Sex Education (RSE) post-16 would better…

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Developing Brook’s new accessible image bank 

For #SHW23, we’re Playing It Safe. In this blog, sex-positive illustrator, Rachel Jardine, explains the process behind developing Brook’s new accessible image bank.  Over the last few months, I have…

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How does teaching young people about pleasure keep them safe? 

For #SHW23, we’re Playing It Safe. In this blog, Brook Education and Wellbeing Specialist Alice Hoddinott explains how teaching young people about pleasure keeps them safe.   As conversations around…

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Why we need to talk to young people about pornography

In this blog, Brook Education and Wellbeing Specialist, Katie Cicco explains why teaching young people about pornography helps to keep them safe.  In the digital age, access to explicit content…

The Spiral Curriculum in Relationships and Sex Education  

In this blog, Brook’s Resource Development Coordinator, Rebecca Cant, explains what a spiral curriculum is, how it looks in practice, and why it’s essential in supporting young people to be…

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Why I wish I had better sex education growing up

For #SHW23 we’re Playing It Safe. In this blog, Brook Forum Member Rachel Jardine takes us through her experience of RSE at school and why she feels she missed out…

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Sexual assault and anxiety: How we can better support young people

A key priority at Brook this year is to explore, recognise and respond to the link between sexual health and mental health. In this blog, Hannah Murden, Brook’s Service Development…

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The Fight for Inclusive Sex Education in the UK

This Pride Month Brook’s Resource Development Coordinator, Rebecca Cant, looks back at the history of sex education to see what the hard-won battles of the past can teach us in…

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Rise in teen conception rates signals a warning against complacency

Alison Hadley is Director of the Teenage Pregnancy Knowledge Exchange at the University of Bedfordshire and Chair of the Sex Education Forum. In this blog, she explains why the slight…

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Improving Pornography Education in Wales

Christian Webb (he/they), an Education and Wellbeing Specialist at Brook, talks about a recent project they led with young people and professionals to improve the education young people in Wales…

Top tips for teaching about pornography

Christian Webb (he/they), a Brook Education and Wellbeing Specialist based in Wales, offers 10 top tips for how to teach about porn based on feedback from young people in a…

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Why are we still ‘defending’ RSE in 2023?

Lisa Hallgarten, Brook’s Head of Policy and Public Affairs, reminds us that the only people we should be listening to when it comes to RSE, are our young people.  Alongside…