Schools Consent Project North-West
Twitter: http://twitter.com/SCPNorthWest
Where do they work?: Chorlton, City-Wide
Registered charity number: 0
Description: The Schools Consent Project (SCP) North-West is a not-for-profit organisation which is led by lawyers (but includes personnel without a legal background or any formal legal training) which goes into to secondary schools to provide workshops on sexual consent and the law surrounding sexual consent and sexual offences. We aim to give young people the chance to explore and better understand the issues surrounding sexual consent, help to develop their own sense of sexual empowerment and autonomy and educate them in the law relating to types of sexual offences (some of which vary according to the age of the young person/people involved).
The SCP was originally founded in London and we are now attempting to establish a regional group for the north-west of England. I personally am based in Manchester and my fellow co-director Rebecca (a qualified barrister) lives part-time between north Wales and Stockport. Rebecca has delivered these workshops in London schools but, as yet, we are very much in the founding stages of the north-west project and are aiming to deliver our first workshops in Manchester schools as soon as possible during the next academic year. However, while we will primarily be targeting schools we will also be aiming to reach out to youth groups (including LGBT youth groups), young offenders groups and any other group who we feel could benefit from the sort of service and education that we have to offer.
The SCP was originally founded in London and we are now attempting to establish a regional group for the north-west of England. I personally am based in Manchester and my fellow co-director Rebecca (a qualified barrister) lives part-time between north Wales and Stockport. Rebecca has delivered these workshops in London schools but, as yet, we are very much in the founding stages of the north-west project and are aiming to deliver our first workshops in Manchester schools as soon as possible during the next academic year. However, while we will primarily be targeting schools we will also be aiming to reach out to youth groups (including LGBT youth groups), young offenders groups and any other group who we feel could benefit from the sort of service and education that we have to offer.
Services delivered: Workshops (usually lasting one hour to fit in with school timetables, although this can be extended) which teach young people aged 11-18 about sexual consent and the law surrounding sexual consent and sexual offences. Workshop content differs slightly to ensure that it is age-appropriate for the class that we are delivering it to. SCP North-West aims to improve young people's understanding of sexual consent and types of sexual offences, while simultaneously encouraging young people to develop their own sexual empowerment and autonomy. We aim to normalise discussions around sexual consent amongst young people as research shows that young people's understanding of sexual consent and the law and their engagement in "consent conversations" amongst their peers and sexual partners is worryingly low.