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Safeguarding
Activities and resources
Safeguarding Children in the UK: Fact or Fiction?
This true-or-false quiz is designed to test and enhance knowledge about the role of social workers and other professionals in safeguarding children in the UK. It covers key topics such as child protection responsibilities, legal frameworks, multi-agency collaboration, and the importance of ongoing training. The quiz also addresses common misconceptions about the scope of social work, including whether safeguarding is solely reactive or limited to specific types of abuse. By challenging these assumptions, the activity aims to raise awareness about child protection and the shared responsibility of different sectors in ensuring children's safety.
Quiz: Bullying & Cyberbullying
This activity is a true-or-false quiz designed to test and increase awareness about cyberbullying in the UK. It covers key aspects such as the definition of cyberbullying, its legal status, and its impact on mental health. The quiz also examines the responsibilities of social media platforms, the effects of cyberbullying on academic performance, and common misconceptions about who is affected. Additionally, it explores how often cyberbullying is reported and whether it is limited to young people. This activity aims to educate participants on the realities of cyberbullying and promote safer online interactions.
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Critical Thinking - Dialogue For Change: Real Life Social Senserios (US Based)
Here are real-life scenarios and stories designed to spark meaningful discussions among participants. These scenarios encourage critical thinking and thoughtful assessment of complex topics, such as race, inequality, and gender issues. Each example aims to promote personal reflection, engage diverse perspectives, and foster group conversations.
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Critical Thinking - Dialogue For Change: Real Life Social Senserios (UK Based)
Here are real-life scenarios and stories designed to spark meaningful discussions among participants. These scenarios encourage critical thinking and thoughtful assessment of complex topics, such as race, inequality, and gender issues. Each example aims to promote personal reflection, engage diverse perspectives, and foster group conversations.
Emotional Wellbeing: Balance Your Thoughts
The Thought Balancing Worksheet is designed to help participants identify, challenge, and reframe negative or unhelpful thoughts. By examining these thoughts from multiple perspectives, individuals can create a more balanced and realistic view, reducing anxiety and promoting healthier thinking. This activity encourages reflection and critical thinking, allowing participants to better understand their automatic thoughts and replace them with more grounded, constructive ones. Using this worksheet with a therapist or in a supportive group can provide valuable insights and strategies for improving mental well-being.
Wellbeing: Positive Psychology Prompt Cards
Positive psychology conversation prompt cards are tools designed to inspire meaningful dialogue and self-reflection. They encourage individuals to explore strengths, cultivate gratitude, build resilience, and foster positive emotions. Rooted in the principles of positive psychology, these prompts help focus on flourishing and well-being by emphasising strengths, purpose, engagement, and healthy relationships rather than solely addressing challenges.
Consent or Not? Sexual Health & Consent Education
This activity aims to foster a deeper understanding of consent by engaging participants in discussion, debate, and reflection. Participants will evaluate various scenarios to determine whether consent was achieved, referencing UK laws to support their perspectives. Through these exercises, participants will challenge assumptions and misconceptions surrounding consent, promoting respectful and informed behavior.
Navigating Stress: Finding Balance and Resilience in Daily Life
This activity is designed to help individuals identify and evaluate their personal stressors and protective factors in order to better understand how they cope with daily pressures. By categorizing stress into Daily Hassles, Major Life Changes, Life Circumstances, and Protective Factors, participants can gain insights into the sources of their stress and what contributes to their well-being. The activity also focuses on recognizing Healthy Coping Strategies and Daily Upliftsthat can promote emotional resilience and reduce stress.
Hack Your Happy Chemicals: Mindful Mood Booster
This activity introduces participants to the "happy chemicals" in the brain—dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphins—and explains how they influence mood and well-being. The resource provides practical, daily activity suggestions to naturally boost these chemicals, such as exercising, expressing gratitude, or spending time with loved ones. Participants can track their progress using a simple tracker sheet, encouraging intentional efforts to prioritize their mental and emotional health.
Wellbeing: Positive Psychology Prompt worksheet conversation tool
Positive psychology conversation worksheet is a tool designed to inspire meaningful dialogue and self-reflection. They encourage individuals to explore strengths, cultivate gratitude, build resilience, and foster positive emotions. Rooted in the principles of positive psychology, these prompts help focus on flourishing and well-being by emphasising strengths, purpose, engagement, and healthy relationships rather than solely addressing challenges.
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Exploring Loneliness: Disscussion questions
This resource is designed to support clients experiencing isolation, social anxiety, or depression, and helps foster a deeper understanding of loneliness. However, t also relies on your role as a practitioner to be sensitive and engage in a way that resonates with your client. This tool is intended to facilitate meaningful discussion and guide a constructive piece of work.
True or False: Personal Hygiene
This True or False activity focuses on personal hygiene, which can be a sensitive topic, especially in a group setting. It addresses common myths and misconceptions while providing valuable information.
If you're working with a vulnerable individual who may not fully understand personal hygiene, consider creating care packs together. You can work with them to assemble the packs and have them write instructions on how to use each item and why it’s important, have them place the written instructions into each care pack. Once complete, you can distribute the packs to others and suggest they also have one. This approach helps introduce the topic in gentle way.
Exploring Your Identity
Your identity is how you think about, describe, and express who you are. It can include roles or traits such as being a sibling, a student, an animal lover, an athlete, or a kind-hearted individual. Understanding your identity can help bring meaning and direction to your life.
The Weekly Self-Care Checklist
This is a self-care check list designed to help participants track the positive habits they’ve achieved throughout the week. They can tick off various activities they’ve completed, and also create their own self-care routines. It’s important to have a conversation with participants to identify which routines are most meaningful to them. By doing this, you can ensure they have a balanced and caring approach to their week, promoting their health and wellbeing.
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Sexually Transmitted Infections (STI): True or false, Myth Busters
This engaging activity challenges participants to distinguish facts from misconceptions about sexually transmitted infections (STIs). Through true or false statements, participants explore key information on STI transmission, prevention, and symptoms. Facilitator-led discussions provide accurate insights and dispel myths, promoting informed decision-making around sexual health. This activity is designed to be educational, interactive, and supportive of open conversations about sexual health.
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Sexually Transmitted Infections (STI): Can You Catch it?
This interactive activity helps participants understand the risks associated with the transmission of sexually transmitted infections (STIs). Participants review words or scenarios and sort them into categories: "Risk of Transmission" or "No Risk of Transmission." Through group discussions and facilitator-led explanations, participants gain valuable knowledge about STI prevention and dispel common myths.
Sort It Out: HIV Transmission Myths - Risk or no Risk
HIV is an important topic that need to be learnt about and disscussed. in this actyviity, participants will learn and identify ways HIV is and is not transmitted by sorting images into two categories; Risk of HIV transmission and no risk of HIV transmission, an unsure pile can also be used.
Wellbeing: Activity Name: Thinking Trap Detective
This interactive activity helps participants identify and challenge common negative thinking traps, such as catastrophising, mind reading, and all-or-nothing thinking. By recognising these patterns, participants learn how to reframe negative thoughts into more balanced, realistic perspectives. The activity promotes self-awareness and mental resilience, offering practical strategies to navigate daily challenges and foster a healthier mindset.
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Conversation Cards: Listen & Learn (Parent and Child)
This activity is designed to strengthen the bond between a parent (or guardian) and child by fostering open, meaningful conversations. Through thought-provoking questions, participants gain a better understanding of each other's perspectives and emotions. Both parent and child take turns selecting identical or pre-selected questions and place their answers under "Agree," "Disagree," or "Unsure," while explaining their thought process without interruption.
Peer Pressure Dilemmas: Conversations & Decisions
This interactive activity is designed to help teenagers and young adults recognise peer pressure in various situations and practice making informed decisions. By presenting realistic scenarios, participants will explore how they can respond to peer pressure in a way that aligns with their values and long-term goals.
Affirmation Statements
These affirmation words can be used across a range of therapeutic, educational, and creative activities to encourage positive self-talk, build emotional resilience, and boost confidence. They work well in affirmation art projects, morning check-ins, reflective discussions, journaling exercises, mindfulness practices, and even group activities like compliment circles. Whether used in 1:1 sessions or group settings, affirmations offer a gentle and empowering way to support wellbeing and self-esteem. This practitioner’s instruction guide offers positive prompts to help you effectively plan and facilitate a session.
Health Session: Clean & Kind Kits
This activity promotes awareness of personal hygiene through a gentle, indirect approach. By creating hygiene packs for people in need, children learn the importance of self-care while developing compassion and responsibility. It also opens the door for subtle, stigma-free conversations about health and hygiene.
Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs - Needs & Wants.
This activity is designed to help participants explore and understand the core concept of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs— a theory that outlines the five basic levels of human need, from survival to self-fulfilment. Through a mix of guessing, discussion, and real-life scenario sorting, participants will learn what motivates human behaviour and how unmet needs can affect thoughts, emotions and actions. It also supports critical thinking and emotional insight.
Conversation Promts: Moments That Mattered
This activity uses reflective prompts to help participants build emotional awareness, boost gratitude, and improve interpersonal communication. Each prompt encourages discussion around moments of joy, kindness, resilience, or connection from the past day or week. It works well in individual sessions, small group settings, or as part of a wider emotional literacy programme.
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