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RSHEMental wellbeing and getting help20 min★ difficulty

Trusted adults, services and your rights

Knowing who to tell, before you need to tell anyone, is one of the most protective things a young person can have.

Lesson overview

What you'll learn in this lesson

Know how to stay safe and where to find trusted adults and services

Key learning points

  • • Build your list
  • • Confidentiality, honestly explained
  • • Services worth remembering

This lesson at a glance

  • 20 minutes
  • 16 parts to scroll through
  • 4 quick checks
  • Marked quiz at the end
  • Gentle pace: short sittings with pauses

Words to know

trustedadultsservicesconfidentialityhonestly

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Trusted adults, services and your rights

An English teaching video on this topic from ClickView. Watch it, then scroll down for the lesson.

In a nutshell

Know how to stay safe and where to find trusted adults and services

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Learning cycle

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Learning cycle 1 of 2

Part 1 · Build your list

A short piece of teaching, then a check to make sure it has landed.

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Explore the idea

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Learn

Build your list

Name three adults you could go to: one at home, one connected to your learning or activities, and one further out, such as a relative or a family friend. Three matters, because the first person is not always available or is sometimes part of the problem.

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Explore the idea

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Learn

Confidentiality, honestly explained

Most services keep what you say private. The exception is when someone is at risk of serious harm, when an adult must pass it on to keep you safe. They should tell you they are doing that and why. Knowing this in advance means the moment is not a shock.

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Quick check

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Quick check

Why name three trusted adults rather than one?

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Quick check

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Quick check

When might an adult have to pass on what you tell them?

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Reset break

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Pause

That's sitting 1 of 2 done

Stretch, get a drink, look out of the window. There is no timer and nothing is counting down — your place is saved, so you can come back in five minutes or tomorrow.

Stop here for now
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Learning cycle

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Learning cycle 2 of 2

Part 2 · Services worth remembering

A short piece of teaching, then a check to make sure it has landed.

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Explore the idea

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Learn

Services worth remembering

Childline on 0800 1111 is free and confidential. Shout offers text support. NSPCC supports adults worried about a child. In immediate danger, 999. None of these require you to be certain that something is serious enough.

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Quick check

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Quick check

Which number reaches Childline?

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Quick check

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Quick check

What if the first adult responds badly?

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Explore the idea

Part 12 of 16

Worked example

Worked example: telling someone something difficult

A workable opener: 'Can I tell you something I'm worried about? I don't want advice yet, I just need you to listen.' It sets the terms, which makes it easier to start. If the first adult responds badly, that is information about them, not about whether you were right to speak — go to the second name on your list.

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Challenge round

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Game · Sort it

Which of these are true?

Drag each card into the right column. Tap a card first if dragging is fiddly.

True

Not true

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Challenge round

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Game · Fill the gaps

Finish the sentences

Choose the word that belongs in each gap.

Name three ____ you could go to: one at home, one connected to your learning or activities, and one further out, such as a relative or a family friend.

Most ____ keep what you say private.

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Mastery quiz

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Marked quiz

End of lesson quiz: Trusted adults, services and your rights

4 questions, marked with the reasoning shown. No timer.

  1. 1. Why name three trusted adults rather than one?

  2. 2. When might an adult have to pass on what you tell them?

  3. 3. Which number reaches Childline?

  4. 4. What if the first adult responds badly?

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Lesson round-up

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Lesson round-up

Ready when you are

Quiz score

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Points this lesson

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Best run

0 in a row

Luna: 0 out of 4 on the practice checks. Only if you feel up to it — one more?

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Do the work

Your written work for this lesson

This is the part you'd do in your book at school. Pick the pieces below, write here or on paper, and photograph anything you draw or work out.

Case study

The group chat

Ellie is added to a class group chat with twenty-six people in it. At first it is jokes and homework questions. Then someone screenshots a private message from a girl in another class and posts it. Several people laugh. Two people leave the chat. Ellie says nothing, and feels bad about it that evening.

The next day the girl is off school. A teacher asks the class about the chat. Nobody wants to be the one who tells.

Staying silent can feel like the safest choice in the moment. It also leaves the person who was hurt on their own.

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Reading questions

  1. What choices did Ellie have at the moment the screenshot was posted?
  2. Who could she tell, and what would each of them be able to do?
  3. Write what you would do in this situation and why, in 6–8 sentences.

  • Thinking it through

    Writing

    Write what you would do in this situation, who you would ask, and why.

    6–8 sentences

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