What is SLIP?
SLIP stands for “Sex, the law, internet and pornography”. It is designed to reach young offenders and young people at risk of offending. We know that many young people who offend are not able to attend formal sexual health and relationship education for a number of reasons. We hope that through SLIP, we can address this need in a fun and accessible way and give young people the facts they need to make positive choices.
Programme Aims
- Give the young people wider and more accurate knowledge about sex and relationships to encourage positive and informed choices.
- Give the young people tools to navigate their own sex and relationships in a healthy and legal way.
- Prevent offending and reoffending by helping the young people to understand the laws around sex clearly and the benefits of abiding by them.
The programme takes elements from the following acts:
- Sexual Offences Act 2003
- Principal Offences, and
- Sexual Offences Act 1956
- The Serious Crime Act 2015
- Protection from Harassment Act 1997
- Malicious Communications Act 1988
- Communications Act 2003
- The Protection of Children Act 1978
Scheme of Work:
Session 1
Introduction
- Introduce Dhiverse and SLIP
- Build a relationship with YP
- Set classroom rules
- Build an open atmosphere
- Motivate learning
- Assess the level of learners
Objectives
- Identify where young people learn about sex in modern society and decide where the most accurate information comes from.
- Identify who we feel comfortable talking to about sex and relationships
- Identify what topics we feel comfortable talking about, what we feel uncomfortable talking about and what is taboo.
- Identify what makes good sex and relationship education and plan how we can achieve this as a class.
Session 2
Am I normal?
- Examine the media’s influence on body image
- Dispel myths perpetuated by the media and pornography
- Discourage the idea of ‘normal’ and encourage healthy diversity
- Recognise a variety of genders and sexualities
Objectives
- Be exposed to a variety of body types and experiences
- Reflect on how the media and pornography has distorted society’s views
- Have the opportunity to ask questions
- Examine the variety in healthy bodily and sexual development
- Come up with as many different sexualities and genders as we can and discuss what they mean.
Session 3
Consent
- Build awareness around consent and who can legally give it
- Give the young people tools to ask for consent
Enable students to recognise situations that are non-consensual
Objectives
- Define ‘consent’
- Distinguish between who can and cannot give consent.
- Produce a list of ways to ask for consent
Session 4
Abuse and exploitation
- Enable young people to recognise their own and other people’s vulnerabilities
- Encourage young people to be selective about who they entrust with their vulnerabilities
- Enable young people to recognise abusive relationships
- Build understanding around abuse laws in UK
Objectives
- List and explain the things that can make someone vulnerable.
- Discuss groups with a higher amount of abuse and why this might be- e.g trans youth, disabled people..
- Distinguish between negative traits and positive traits in a relationship
- Create a list of warning signs for an abusive relationship
- Define abuse, including the terms ‘exploitation’, ‘controlling behaviour’ and ‘coercion’.
- Discuss how to make someone feel loved.
Session 5
Online safety and exploitation
- Encourage young people to be conscious of their online activity
- Explore laws that affect our online use
- Raise awareness of online exploitation
Objectives
- Compile a list of all the social media we can think of
- Define the term ‘digital footprint’
- Identify ways in which to protect your digital footprint
- Watch a video about laws that affect our online use and discuss the implications through case studies
- Identify how to protect ourselves when meeting people online and off
Session 6
Pornography and sexting
- Raise knowledge of how laws affect young people’s online use
- Ensure students realise underage sexting is illegal
- Programme evaluation
Objectives
- Identify the legal age to watch porn
- Explore how the porn industry works and what it is trying to achieve
- Describe the positive and negative effects of watching porn
- Examine how porn represents women, LGBT communities and BAME communities
- Demonstrate understanding of the laws surrounding pornography and sexting
- Fill in an evaluation form about the programme
Natasha Amps
SLIP Programme Facilitator
E: natasha.amps@dhiverse.org.uk
M: 07539 154586
