About the Project
Adferiad’s Don’t Touch Tell programme is funded by the North Wales Area Planning Board. We deliver preventative information to all primary schools across North Wales and will shortly be including Powys schools too. Schools receive these shows every three years, ensuring every primary-aged child in North Wales has access to both shows.
Who do we support?
The service delivers two messages, Don’t Touch Tell to younger pupils and Don’t Drink Think to the older pupils. The messages also include county lines and vaping. All the shows are set to the Welsh curriculum with resources covering the six areas of learning. Schools can choose to have shows in Welsh, English or bilingually. All the performers are professionals and include magicians, ventriloquists, and storytellers.
How do we do it?
We deliver professional shows which incorporate performance with very important keep safe messages. This enables young children to make informed choices about keeping themselves safe without the session being scary or worrying. As professional performers, the team are able to deliver the same show effectively to different age groups, setting the show at each level.
Typically, we deliver two shows to children during their years at primary school. Schools can contact us if they require further sessions, or in response to emerging situations locally. The programme has been delivered by Adferiad (previously known as CAIS) for 20 years.
The programme provides evidence-based drug and alcohol education sessions addressing:
- risks associated with handling discarded needles and paraphernalia
- dangers of taking medication that is not intended for them;
- dangers of household substances (cleaning products, etc.);
- how peer pressure works and instilling the confidence to say “No”;
- reasons why drugs and alcohol are harmful to young people;
- emerging topics including county lines, and recognising grooming techniques used to target children.
These topics:
- increase awareness of the dangers associated with drugs and alcohol;
- provide relevant and appropriate facts and information to help keep children safe;
- are delivered in a visual and interactive way to support effective learning and knowledge retention;
- empower children to make informed choices;
- support continued learning through teacher resource packs, encompassing all six areas of learning and experience (expressive arts; health and wellbeing; humanities; languages, literacy and communication; mathematics and numeracy; science and technology).
Resources for teachers
Each school has access to a comprehensive teacher resource pack to be used for future learning sessions, reiterating the key messages and encouraging further learning. You can return to this collection of worksheets as often as you like, reinforcing the important messages delivered during the Don’t Touch – Tell! performance. The worksheets are available in English and in Welsh. Simply download the master files, enter the password which was sent with your teacher resource pack and photocopy for use by the children in your school. If you have any difficulty accessing these resources, please email us or call using the contact details above
➡️ Click here to access the Don’t Touch – Tell! teacher resources
Safeguarding and data
All our performers are fully DBS-checked, and operate under a rigorous safeguarding procedure. Performers will only attend a school under supervision and will not be left alone with a child or group of children. No personal data about children will be held by performers or by the service unless a child makes a disclosure which may raise a safeguarding concern. Such disclosures will be logged in line with our safeguarding procedures, and recorded in line with policies in place at the school. Schools will be asked to complete a short, anonymous quiz both before and after our performances – enabling us to measure how Don’t Touch – Tell! has helped children increase their awareness of the harms associated with drug and alcohol use. This information will be used to measure outcomes, support our performance reporting, and tailor our service appropriately. We may share the results of this research with individual schools, but will only do so on an anonymised basis. Anonymised results will only be published, or otherwise made widely available, once aggregated with results from other schools in the same local authority area.
Referral
Don’t Touch Tell is a fully funded service for every local authority in North Wales primary school, eliminating the need for referrals.
If you would like to request more information, please get in contact using the phone or email address below.