Supported Loving toolkit

Sex positive sexuality and relationships training

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People with support needs have the same rights to have intimate, sexual and romantic relationships as anyone else, but often don’t have adequate support to ensure that they are able to exercise these rights.

Resources

Skills for Care Relationships and sexuality awareness training program (FREE)me

Skills for Care and Supported Loving have developed a package of training materials to help social care employers develop the skills and knowledge needed to support people who draw on services with personal relationships. The training resources have been developed for social care training providers and in-house training departments of social care employers to use to embed learning around supporting the personal and sexual relationships of people drawing on care and support.

The ‘Supporting personal relationships’ guide and trainer materials are supported by the Care Quality Commission and compliment their guidance around inspection in the area of relationships and sexuality in adult social care services.

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Learning materials review for social care staff surrounding sexuality and relationships

Supported Loving was commissioned by Skills Far Care to undertake a review of the learning materials available to best support people across all social care groups surrounding sexuality and intimate relationships. This report collates reviews of resources that are available to social care staff from a range of authors, disciplines, and formats.

Supporting personal relationships guide - Supported Loving & Skills for Care

This guidance will help employers think about what workers need to know and understand about personal relationships, and how they can create a workforce development programme for their organisation.

Learning materials review database

Use this spreadsheet created by Supported loving for Skills for Care to filter the learning resources by social care group, type of resource, it’s purpose, availability and cost, as well as specific areas that it covers, such as internet safety and usage and person centred approached to sex and sexuality.

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Supported Loving toolkit

The Supported Loving network has produced a series of guides to help support people with issues surrounding sexuality and relationships.

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Supported Loving network

Supported Loving is not a formal membership organisation. Anyone can take part, it is free.

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