Teaches the characteristics and importance of safe relationships with family, friends, peers, or partners, and discusses the impact of positive and negative influences when it comes to relationships.

The Ally Relationship Safety resource aims to provide child-related workers with an appropriate tool to assist in delivering child safe protective behaviour messages in a clear, simple, and non-confronting way.

Acknowledging and addressing abuse can help to remove the secrecy that protects the offender and can help prevent the lasting emotional damage caused by silence to the victim survivors.

Builds skills and confidence to discuss Relationship Safety with children and promotes positive discussions about relationship safety and learning experiences with children and young people. ALLY informs help available to them.

Students should be taught ways to protect themselves; they can be ‘enlightened without being frightened’. Be taught to network with trusted adults if faced with unsafe situations. To be aware there are people and services to help them within their community.

Minimises the risk of children feeling confronted or uncomfortable when talking about relationship safety however if faced with a situation of potential abuse children have knowledge to react and seek protection effectively. Students explore what constitutes respectful relationships, what influences inclusion and equality and how to seek help if something isn’t right.

While you can deliver the content appropriately, you can’t predict how children will react and you need to consider some children may respond differently, particularly if they have been abused, are currently victims of abuse or they are witnessing violence. If you believe a child is at risk of harm as a mandatory reporter, you are required to contact ARL. Navigate to the reporting tab on the emergency networks page (link below)