This Safe and Unsafe Touch poster is a free, child friendly PDF designed to help children, kids, and young people understand body safety, personal boundaries, and consent in a clear and reassuring way. It explains the difference between safe touch and unsafe touch using simple language and visual prompts that are easy for children to understand.
The resource teaches children that their body belongs to them and that they have the right to feel safe. It explains that safe touch can include care related to health, hygiene, or comfort and is never a secret. It also clearly defines unsafe touch, including touch that hurts, feels wrong, involves secrets, or includes private body parts covered by underwear. The poster reinforces that children can say no or stop at any time.
The poster includes practical guidance on what children can do if they feel scared or worried, such as moving away if possible and telling a safe grown up. It encourages children to keep telling trusted adults until someone helps, supporting confidence, self protection, and help seeking behaviour.
This resource is especially useful for early years and primary aged children. It supports learning about consent, safeguarding, emotional safety, and healthy boundaries. It can be used at home, in schools, nurseries, therapy settings, and wellbeing spaces.
The poster is suitable for parents, carers, foster carers, adoptive parents, teachers, teaching assistants, social workers, therapists, and counsellors who need a clear and age appropriate tool to talk with children about body safety and unsafe situations.
