Lancashire Changing Futures

The Changing Futures programme is a £91.8 million funding programme, launched in 2020 and funded by the Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government (MHCLG) and The National Lottery Community Fund. The joint initiative supports the public sector and local organisations to work in partnership to better support those who experience multiple disadvantage including:

Homelessness
Substance misuse
Mental health issues
Domestic abuse
and contact with the criminal justice system

Aims of the Changing Futures Programme:

Support individuals who face multiple disadvantages: by stabilising and supporting collective improvement to their lives  
For local services: to provide a person-centred approach and help reduce demand on crisis services
The wider system: trying new funding and engagement approaches. This includes local commissioners, organisations, central government and local areas

Visit your Locality Area below to see how Changing Futures can help you:

Blackpool
Changing futures

Preston
Coming soon

Blackburn & Darwen
Coming soon

Lancaster
Coming soon

PSHE

Personal, social, health and economic education is a school curriculum subject in England that focuses on strengthening the knowledge, skills, and connections to keep children and young people healthy and safe and prepare them for life and work.

Schools should refer to the DfE statutory guidance to inform their delivery.

In addition, below are resources designed to support you in your work within schools around implementation of relationships education, relationships and sex education and health education. It includes the latest links to RSHE resources and trusted national organisations.

1. Consulting with parents and pupils, and developing policy
2. What to teach and how to teach it
3. Sustaining success

Key areas of RSHE

The introduction of statutory RSHE in September 2020 focuses on mandatory education in the following areas:

Mental wellbeing

Internet safety and harms

Physical health and fitness

Healthy eating

Drugs, alcohol and tobacco

Health and prevention

Basic first aid

Changing adolescent body

STI Symptom Checker

Unusual discharge
Pain, burning or increase in weeing
Rashes, lumps or blisters
Stinging, itching or tingling
Pain and/or bleeding during sex
Bleeding after sex

Pain in the testicles (balls)
Pain or tenderness in the lower tummy
Irregular bleeding
Strong, unpleasant smell from the vagina after sex
Painful swelling of penis, testicles or foreskin
Brown eggs on pubic or other body hair
No Symptoms

Get tested if you have any of these symptoms, a sexual partner has symptoms or you’re worried after having sex without a condom. Many STIs have no symptoms at all, like HIV. The only way to know for sure is to get tested.