Key Policy and Guidance
National Guidance for Child Protection in Scotland 2021 outlines the responsibilities and expectations to effectively support and protect children and young people.
Safeguarding – Child Sexual Exploitation an outline of child sexual exploitation (CSE), provides guidance and support for practitioners and senior leaders.
Safeguarding – Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) an outline of female genital mutilation (FGM), provides guidance and support for practitioners and senior leaders.
Safeguarding: identify, understand and respond appropriately to sexual behaviours in young people supports practitioners to identify, understand and respond appropriately to sexual behaviours in young people.
Healthy relationships and consent: key messages for young people a resource for practitioners to support young people in their understand of health relationships and consent.
LGBT+: Supporting transgender young people in schools: guidance for Scottish schools a guidance for schools on supporting transgender young people.
LGBT+: Addressing Inclusion – Effectively Challenging Homophobia, Biphobia & Transphobia a guidance to support practitioners recognise, challenge and effectively manage incidents of homophobic, biphobia and transphobic bullying in school settings.
Menstruation: Period Products (Free Provision) (Scotland) Act 2021 Guidance a guidance for responsible bodies about the exercise of the functions conferred to them by the Period Productions (Free Provision) (Scotland) Act 2021.
Pornography: Young People, sex and relationships: The new norms, a study into how young people feel about sex education, pornography and relationships in the age of mobile technology.
Pregnancy and Parenthood: Pregnancy and Parenthood in Young People Strategy
Pregnancy and Parenthood: “Someone to talk to and Someone to listen” – Supporting young pregnant women and young parents in school a guidance for practitioners to effectively support young pregnant pupils and parents in schools.
RSHP Teaching Guidance a guidance for practitioners on the conduct of teaching relationships, sexual health and parenthood education within the Curriculum for Excellence.
Scottish Council for Learning Disabilities: Safe and Healthy Relationships provides examples of good practice in relation to RSHP education for children and young people with additional support needs.
Scottish Council for Learning Disabilities: report on relationships report generated following 2019 survey of people with learning disabilities in Scotland into relationships and loneliness.
Getting It Right For Every Child a national approach to improving the wellbeing of children and young people in Scotland.
Respect For All: national approach to anti-bullying supports practitioners build capacity, resilience and skills in children and young people to prevent and effectively deal with bullying.
