Our work in Primary and Secondary schools helps children and young people gain an understanding of healthy and unhealthy relationships, with opportunities to ask questions either within the group or in private.

Experienced, well trained child support workers deliver workshops in a way that is interesting, age related and informative. The delivery has a huge impact on students and teaching staff as most have very little, if any, awareness of domestic abuse prior to the sessions. By working with pupils from a young age, we raise awareness and give them the knowledge to recognise domestic abuse, helping towards prevention. Our relationship with the local schools continues to grow, they trust our work. We work alongside the Lincolnshire Council Council Stay Safe Partnership within secondary schools

Through their extensive experience of front-line working with children and young people, who have witnessed domestic abuse we provide anonymised ‘real life stories’ during our delivery; this is always received well and helps children and young people to understand the affects.

Disclosures during school sessions or afterwards shows this work creates a space where children feel safe to discuss and understand how this affects them all as a group. One-to-one work following disclosure allows us to support the child, help them understand what they are going through and their feelings, whilst giving them further knowledge into domestic abuse, safety planning and offering coping strategies. 

Feedback from teachers in primary and secondary schools has described the workshops as ‘vital, essential, fantastic, well-pitched and invaluable’.