Frequently Asked Questions

Our training is suitable for any professional working with, or making decisions that affect, young people, including:   

• Teachers 
• Classroom and 1-2-1 support staff 
• Pastoral leads 
• Senior Leaders  
• Policy Leads  
• Governors 
• Youth workers 
• Healthcare workers 
• Criminal justice workers 
• Youth Offending Teams 
• Parents and carers 

We can deliver both online and in person professional training depending on your location. Both are facilitated by an experienced Brook Specialist.  

Our training sessions are charged at a set hourly rate that includes travel within a certain radius. We can offer discounts for larger bookings. The prices on our website offer a guide to how much training sessions cost, contact our team to find out more.   

If you can’t find what you’re looking for on our professionals training page, get in touch with our team to see if we are able to support you with a particular theme or topic. Our team always make sure we find the best training session for you.  

Most of our training sessions are for up to 20 professionals. This is to encourage participation and interaction, as smaller working groups allow for activities and discussions; ultimately making the training more engaging. 

We do have a few trainings that are specially designed for larger numbers if you need to train a larger group of staff.  

Some of our training courses for professionals are CPD, these include: 

• Managing difficult questions  
• Teaching RSE in the classroom 
• Online safety  
• Talking to care experienced young people 
• Safeguarding e-learning  
• Traffic Light Tool e-learning

A ‘train the trainer’ model is recommended for organisations that are planning on training a large number of staff. With this extended training, our Brook experts train a group within the organisation not just on the content but on how to effectively deliver the session to other staff members. This method allows you to train more people in less time and at a lower cost.  

We offer the Traffic Light Tool and Sexual Health in the Community as train the trainer models.

Prices start from £125 per hour session. This pays for a trauma-informed and young person-led session for up to 30 pupils led by a qualified facilitator. Local travel expenses are also included in the price.

We can deliver digitally anywhere in the UK and we also deliver sessions digitally abroad. For in-person sessions we have teams based around the UK which we can travel from depending on your location and our availability. 

We cover one topic per session, so for example an hour’s session on consent or an hour’s session on STIs. We find this leads to a far more effective lesson rather than trying to cover too much content. 

There are several reasons why bringing in an external educator from Brook can lead to a more impactful and meaningful lesson: 

• Students are more likely to pay greater attention and be more involved and engaged. This can help particularly with problematic classes. 
• Our Brook educators are trained to deal with difficult questions in an age-appropriate way 
• Students may be more hesitant to ask certain questions with their usual teacher delivering the class. For all our workshops we create a safe space and have great engagement from students who don’t normally participate in lessons.  
• Brook educators are trained on how to deliver more challenging subjects in an inclusive and safe way that follows RSE guidelines. This may be particularly important if your school is lacking support with its RSE delivery, whether that’s internally or externally from parents and carers.  

Brook’s RSE lessons are developed using insights from young people, cutting-edge research, health models and clinical practice. Each lesson is comprehensive, engaging, trauma-informed and tackles important issues around the topic. 

Our Brook educators create a confidential, safe space for every lesson which allows young people the chance to discuss and ask any questions they might have.  

Classroom workshops are capped at 30 young people, allowing the sessions to be more interactive and engaging, with opportunity for group activities and discussions in order to explore the topics more in-depth. 

We believe workshops are a more engaging, interactive and effective way of learning RSE. We teach all other subjects in the curriculum in groups of these size so why should RSE be any different!  

There are specific benefits to teaching RSE in workshops rather than talks. With lessons capped at 30 students, workshops are more engaging and allow more time for discussion and questions. Young people feel more comfortable in this setting to participate and ask questions which Brook educators use to challenge problematic opinions or stigma and safeguard young people in the process.  

Certain topics can also be challenging and triggering for students such as consent, gender, sexuality, and sexual harassment. In workshops, our educators create a safe, confidential space and are able to monitor and assess the impact a topic is having on someone, allowing them the chance to discuss or talk after the session.  

We always evaluate the success of sessions. The data collected through evaluations is used to inform Brook’s development of services, to plan for future development and to evidence Brook’s successes in working with young people. Our feedback mechanisms allow us to measure the learning journey that young people have taken during a session and understand what young people would like to learn more about.  

1. Go to our specific Brook Learn website
2. Create a Brook Learn account
3. After accepting our privacy and data protection policy, you will be asked to complete some information so that your account can be set up. Make sure you note your password down somewhere.  
4. After setting up your account, you’ll receive an email to validate it.
5. After this your account is fully set up and you’re able to browse free courses as you wish!  

If you’re having difficulty logging in you can reset your password by clicking this option on the login page. If you’re still having difficulty logging in, get in touch with our team on website@brook.org.uk 

1. I bought the course myself – If you bought the course using your own email address, you can access the course you paid for by logging into your Brook Learn account. Once logged in, enter the course under the ‘My Courses’ tab or under the Courses tab on the menu. If you don’t have access but you have purchased access, please contact website@brook.org.uk  
2. Someone else bought the course for me – Please create your own account on Brook Learn and then send us an email on website@brook.org.uk letting us know which email you have used to create a Brook Learn account and which email you used to buy the course. We can transfer access to the course over to you.  
3. I’ve bought a course for multiple people – Please ask that all the people who you’ve bought access for create a Brook Learn account and contact our training team via training@brook.org.uk (with a receipt/proof of purchase if possible). We can then transfer access over to them.  
4. I have an enrolment key – Please create a Brook Learn account, click on the course that the key is for, and enter the enrolment key. If there is an issue with the code please contact training@brook.org.uk  

Enrolment keys are only required for large scale purchases of courses. If you do need one you should be given this from the person in your organisation who purchased access to the course. Otherwise, when you purchase the course for small groups, we will enrol you directly with no need for a key. 

Courses are broken down into a series of interactive modules with clear learning outcomes. 

The first part of each module, Learn it, will equip you with core knowledge and understanding. The second part, Teach it, provides you with ideas on how to tackle that topic with young people, with links to useful, clinically-approved resources. 

No VAT is charged on our e-learning courses. We provide a standard receipt as proof of purchase. If you need a new receipt, please email training@brook.org.uk.

You can pay by invoice by choosing this option at the checkout. Your access to the e-learning course will be granted after payment has been received.

As proud advocates, government consultants and nationally-recognised thought leaders on RSE, we are best placed to guide you on matters of policy, training and implementation. Our educational offers have been specifically designed to aid you every step of the way, ensuring that both young people and the professionals tasked with teaching them RSE are empowered and informed.  

Our direct delivery to young people in schools and youth settings across the country remains the gold standard for quality assured and rights-based RSE. 

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Our training for professionals and education sessions are both delivered by our Brook Specialists who work around the UK to a high standard to ensure you get the most out of each session.  

Brook Specialists are experienced facilitators and RSE experts. Our training programme for the role ensures the same high standard and quality-assured sessions throughout our locations. To ensure the safety of young people, all Specialists have been DBS checked and trained in safeguarding. As with all Brook staff, Specialists sign a “Code of Conduct” which details how they should conduct themselves and work in line with Brook’s position statements.  

1. We’ll discuss with you what you’re looking for in order to work out what training is best and to arrange a date.
2. After this we’ll send over a Service License Agreement (SLA) for you to fill in and sign.
3. Once the SLA has been signed and returned to us, you’re all booked in!
4. We’ll then send an invoice over to your designated finance contact.   

You can read our Cancellation Policy here

For our professionals training and education sessions we tend to book months in advance particularly those that are larger bookings, require more travel or are on popular days for example training for inset days. If we have availability, however, we can organise a session within a few weeks.