Protective Behaviours

Protective Behaviours

This is a preventative programme which builds confidence and resilience by exploring our right to feel safe. It teaches an ability to recognise when we are not feeling safe and provide skills and tools to enable individuals to take action and get help when they need it. It helps children to recognise any situation where they feel worried or unsafe.

The Taking Care Project

We use ‘The ‘Taking Care’ scheme to resource these lessons. It is a series of four lessons (per year group) founded on the principles of Protective Behaviours which aims to provide children with strategies: to help keep them feeling safe; to understand their feelings; and how to respond to them and to develop a sense of self-empowerment.