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Council and charity link up to provide sexual health outreach service

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Hounslow Council has partnered with health and social care charity Turning Point to launch a young people’s sexual health outreach service in the London borough.
The service will provide provide one-to-one support, training, and sexual health promotion. Picture: Wavebreak media mirco/Adobe Stock
The service will provide provide one-to-one support, training, and sexual health promotion. Picture: Wavebreak media mirco/Adobe Stock

The service launches this month and will involve local young people in developing its name and identity as well as partner with local health and education providers.

It will work in schools, colleges, community groups and with health services to provide one-to-one support, training, and sexual health promotion.

Turning Point has replaced sexual health charity Brook in providing sexual health services for young people in the area.

“Working in partnership with the council and other local organisations will allow us to provide a truly needs-based support service and achieve better outcomes for young people in Hounslow,” said Turning Point chief executive Julie Bass.

“We aim to provide them with the education and tools they need to practice good sexual health for the rest of their lives.”

The service is for young people up to the age of 24.

Samia Chaudhary, Hounslow’s cabinet member for adults and health integration, added: “Hounslow Council and its partners are committed to providing our young people with the very best support to help them feel protected, safe and to enable them to make informed choices about their health and relationships.

“It’s exciting that we are involving our young people in developing the identity for the new service and we look forward to seeing the results.”

Meanwhile, a government review of relationships, sex and health education (RSHE) is to be carried out by the end of the year.

The review comes amid concerns from Conservative MPs that some pupils are being taught “age inappropriate, extreme, sexualising and inaccurate” content in schools”.

But education unions have criticised the review for being “politically motivated”.

It has emerged in recent years that staff in four out of five schools had not received mandatory training to deliver RSHE.

 


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