Hi, I am Beckie!

Managing Director and creator, of 'What's The Debate?' Resources, Lesson Plans and Training Packages. 

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I created What's The Debate? because I am passionate about safeguarding children and young people against domestic abuse and sexual violence and I believe Relationship and Sex Education can be a brilliant safeguarding tool to raise awareness on these subjects with children and young people and prevent them from entering abusive and exploitative relationships. 

I have worked with Children and Young People around the issues of Sexual Violence, Child Sexual Exploitation, Domestic Abuse and Mental Health for over 16 years now with roles including; residential care worker in a therapeutic children's home for those that displayed sexual harmful behaviour, CSE Advocate and Coordinator with Barnardos for a Local Authority and Team Manager for a Domestic Abuse Charity for their Children's Services.  

During this time I have heard numerous opinions and views around sexual violence, exploitation and domestic abuse both from young people and professionals. These attitudes and opinions have rarely changed over the 16 years but was has changed is the information in which young people receive their information and the influences that form their frame of reference, we didn't have the internet as widely as it is now 16 years ago and we definitely didn't have access to social media and mobile apps pretty much 24/7.

Some of my favourite pieces of work that I have completed with young people have been around facilitating constructive debates around these views to help educate, raise awareness and minimise risk! Young people can critically think about their own influences and challenges these, they can learn from others and value respect and differences. You can read more about how "What's The Debate?" was created here.

So because of this I designed the original 6 sets of Statement Cards with Lesson Plans, set called 'What's The Debate' which covers; 

*Domestic Abuse
*Exploitation
*Relationships
*Risk
*Mental Health
*Sex

These have now expanded to over 40 different products and I now facilitate a wide range of training to professionals and educational workshops to children, young people and parents.

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