Respect Yourself update
The Respect Yourself programme aims to give young people the power to make positive, informed decisions about their relationships and sexual health. Its website (www.respectyourself.info) provides comprehensive, sex positive information for 13–25 year olds.
Other local areas have seen the value of our approach. Both Gloucestershire and Doncaster have licenced versions of our website. We are promoting the website and hope to have it used more widely across the country.
A team of young people volunteer their time to support the programme. They recently developed and help lead a child sexual exploitation youth conference (‘Let’s talk about Sexting’), that was attended by 14 KS3/4 settings. Currently their new resource for parents is being finalised for inclusion on the Respect Yourself website.
We are keen to work with secondary schools. We are able to offer the ‘Doing It’ Relationship and Sex Ed (RSE) programme free to schools. This is funded through public health – it includes staff training and access to a suite of online resources.
Our primary school RSE programme ‘Spring Fever’ has been oversubscribed for this year. Currently nearly 50 schools are signed up. We hope to secure funding to support another 20 schools in the next financial year.
For further information or queries please contact Luke Carter, Project Manager - Respect Yourself: lukecarter@warwickshire.gov.uk; tel: 01926 414984.