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The Power of Online Forums: A Lifeline for Young People Seeking Sexual Health Advice 

For #SHW23, we’re Playing It Safe. Leshmi Geraghty is Head of Safeguarding at The Student Room, the UK’s largest online student community. In this blog she explores the importance of…

The Spiral Curriculum in Relationships and Sex Education  

For #SHW23, we’re Playing It Safe. 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…

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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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Success Report 22/23

Helen Marshall, Brook’s Chief Executive, reflects on some of Brook’s key achievements in 2022/23 and how we have made a difference through challenging inequality, increasing accessibility, transforming digitally and driving…

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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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Brook statement on abortion conviction

We deeply regret the conviction and imprisonment of a woman this week for illegal abortion. But how should society respond to a woman who has broken the law, lying to…

Finding ‘my people’ as a volunteer at Brook

To celebrate Volunteers’ Week 2023, Rachael Fitzpatrick talks about how her experience volunteering at Brook led her to her current role as an Education and Wellbeing Coordinator. When I was…

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From Zimbabwe to Southend: How my work in HIV prevention healed me

Rutendo Chitiga is a Health Promotion Coordinator at Brook, currently working on a HIV Prevention contract in Southend-on-Sea. In this blog, Ru explains why this work is so important to…

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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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Tackling Digital Exclusion: the Journey So Far with our Digital Front Door 

Florie Moran, Brook’s Digital Transformation Lead, talks about Brook’s plans to tackle digital exclusion and how our Digital Front Door programme will help contribute to this objective. ‘Challenging Inequality’ has…

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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…