Social and sexual safety affects everyone and these Guidelines are for anyone with disability, regardless of their sex, gender or sexuality. These Guidelines aim to raise awareness and understanding of the lived experiences of people with disability and how these affect social and sexual safety. These experiences are included in the Guidelines as quotes and case studies. They capture what people told us during the process to create the Guidelines.
The Safer Me Safer You project has a key focus on supporting women, girls, and people who are gender-diverse. This is in response to the higher rates of sexual violence experienced by women, girls and gender-diverse people with disability. However, these Guidelines create a framework for workplaces and workers to create cultures of safety for all people with disability.
The Guidelines are made for everyone. As such, it is so important that this work is also available in an easy read format. The easy read version of this document is called "The I START Tool - My social and sexual safety."
The I START Tool is something that can help everyone be safer.
This book is written in easy read.
It is for people with disability to learn about the 6 parts of social and sexual safety.
You can use this book to check if you have social and sexual safety.