Course slides
Guidance and policies
Underage sexual activity guidance Edinburgh and Lothians 2024
https://www.healthyrespect.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Edinburgh-and-Lothians-Multi-Agency-Under-Age-Sexual-Activity-Guidance-2024-.pdf
Working With Children And Young People Who Have Displayed Harmful Sexual Behaviour: Evidence Based Guidance For Professionals Working With Children And Young People
https://www.gov.scot/publications/working-children-young-people-displayed-harmful-sexual-behaviour-evidence-based-guidance-professionals-working-children-young-people/
Guidance on the Delivery of Relationships, Sexual Health and Parenthood (RSHP) Education in Scottish Schools
https://www.gov.scot/publications/guidance-delivery-relationships-sexual-health-parenthood-education-scottish-schools/
Child protection 2021- updated 2023
https://www.gov.scot/publications/national-guidance-child-protection-scotland-2021-updated-2023/documents/
Activities for young people
Activity: Rules for touch - an activity for yp to explore appropriate touch
PDF, 5.6 MB, 17 pages
External condom sequencing activity
PDF, 1,007.6 KB, 14 pages
Internal condom sequencing activity
PDF, 1.2 MB, 14 pages
Healthy, unhealthy & abusive relationships
PDF, 200.2 KB, 18 pages
Healthy Relationship Activity- OK & Not OK
PDF, 115.3 KB, 9 pages
Sexual Health Services promotion materials
Inclusion Health resource hub
Find all our current easy read downloadable sexual health resources here, which have also been translated into Arabic, Vietnamese Pashto and Kurdish (Sorani).
Please note this is a temporary location while we finalise the permanent hosting arrangements.
Masturbation posters and hygiene stories
Related resources
Making information easier to read and understand – Healthy Respect (2025)
Summary of some key ways to make your written content easier to read and understand.
Book | Masturbation, Autism and Learning Disabilities
A Guide for Parents and Professionals
Book | What Is Sex? A Guide for People with Autism, Special Educational Needs and Disabilities
Simple language and illustrated book aimed at people with additional needs.
Book | Sexuality and Relationship Education for Children and Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorders
A Professional's Guide to Understanding, Preventing, and Responding to Inappropriate Behaviours. Includes line drawings and social stories for key topics
Book | The Autism-Friendly Guide to Periods
A plain language and picture book about periods for young people aged 9 to 16.
Book | What Is Pregnancy? A Guide for People with Autism, Special Educational Needs and Disabilities
Simple language and illustrated book aimed at people with additional needs.
Book | What are…Relationships?
A book for young people with autism, developmental and intellectual disabilities, using simple language and illustrations.