Schools have taught children road safety and domestic safety skills for many years, and now they are being asked to teach personal safety skills. We now know that children from all backgrounds may become victims of sexual and other forms of abuse, and that the best way to protect them is to show them how to identify dangerous situations and deal with them appropriately. Teaching Children to Protect Themselves is a handbook for teachers and counsellors working with primary aged children. It is suitable for use by teachers working within a structured personal safety skills curriculum, and for those who do not have this support.The authors provide detailed guidance on how to handle all aspects of this sensitive issue. They outline the need for child protection, how to work with parents, ways of developing a curriculum and practical suggestions for classroom exercises. They explain how to manage children's use of the Internet and the particular needs of children with disabilities. The book includes black linemasters which can be copied for use with children in class.

Freda Briggs has an international reputation as an expert on child abuse and is Professor at the De Lissa Institute of Early Childhood and Family Studies at the University of South Australia. She is author (with Russell Hawkins) of Child Protection , and sole author of Teaching Personal Safety Skills to Children with Disabilities, Why My Child?, Keep Children Safe , and Child Sexual Abuse .Michael McVeity is Child Protection Curriculum Officer with the South Australian Department of Education.