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Parents and carers

The FPA Speakeasy course

Our Speakeasy course helps parents and carers gain the confidence and skills to talk to their children about sex, relationships and sexuality.

The course is fun and relaxed, so parents can learn together from their own experiences.

Courses are locally organised around the UK and can link with educational, community and/or health provisions in a particular area.

Speakeasy parents meet the Minister

Sarah Teather MP, centre, with Enfield parents and back row right, David Kesterton, FPA Parenting and Community Project Manager and Julie Bentley, FPA Chief Executive

Following FPA and Brook's Q&A with Sarah Teather MP, Minister for Children and Families, a group of parents who have completed the FPA Speakeasy programme went to meet her.

The Minister heard about the impact that the Speakeasy programme had on them and how they engage with their children's schools on relationships and sex education.

The Minister said “The parents I met today spoke enthusiastically about how the Speakeasy programme has given them confidence and skills to talk to their children about sex and relationships.

“What's more, they are then getting involved in their schools' work on relationships and sex education and passing on this understanding to other parents, helping them to have much easier conversations around what they had previously thought to be an awkward issue. I fully support the aims and objectives of the Speakeasy programme.”