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Healthy Relationships Programme

Boundaries, respect and recognising unhealthy dynamics — for young people growing into adulthood, delivered through your school's own safeguarding framework.

Why this matters

Relationships of every kind, not one script

Young people form friendships, family relationships and romantic relationships without a shared vocabulary for what healthy versions of them actually look like — what a reasonable boundary is, what it feels like when one is being crossed, and what it looks like when someone else's needs consistently come before your own. This programme gives them that vocabulary early, in plain language, before patterns get a chance to set.

It's built on the same practical, evidence-first approach behind every talk and workshop I run — translated for a younger audience, and additionally informed by direct experience of how unhealthy relationship patterns actually develop and what helps people recognise them sooner.

Sessions by age group

Built for where your students actually are

Secondary school (11–14)

An introductory session on friendships and early boundary-setting — what respect looks like day to day, and simple, memorable language for noticing when something feels wrong.

Secondary school (14–16)

A fuller session covering romantic relationships for the first time, healthy versus controlling behaviour, and the specific pressures of relationships that play out partly online.

Sixth form & college (16–18)

A workshop on recognising coercive control and manipulation directly, consent, and where to go for support — for a group old enough to engage with the subject in proper depth.

University & early-career (18–24)

Applying the same material to adult relationships and the workplace, as young adults start navigating both independently for the first time.

For staff: a train-the-trainer CPD session so pastoral and form staff can carry the vocabulary into everyday conversations after the session ends.

Curriculum fit

Aligned with DfE RSE guidance

Sessions are built to sit within the Department for Education's statutory guidance on Relationships, Sex and Health Education (RSE) rather than alongside it — covering respectful relationships, healthy versus unhealthy dynamics, and online safety in age-appropriate stages, so they slot into an existing PSHE or RSE programme rather than duplicating it.

Working with under-18s. Sessions are delivered under an enhanced DBS check, follow the school's own safeguarding policy, and are arranged through — and run alongside — the school's designated safeguarding lead rather than around them. This is education, not counselling, therapy or clinical treatment; any disclosure or concern raised during a session is signposted immediately into the school's own pastoral and safeguarding process, in line with the school's procedures, not handled independently.