Step 1: Survey staff using the SGG scan
The SGG scan is an anonymous questionnaire for all school staff to find out what everyday school practice looks like when it comes to sexually transgressive behaviour: what staff know about it / what is already being done to prevent it / what employees encounter / what they do when things go wrong.
The scan can be administered as a digital questionnaire, but it can also be distributed on paper. This sample scan shows what the questionnaire might look like for a fictitious school. However, the intention is that you adapt the Word version of the scan yourself to the situation at your own school.
If you choose a digital questionnaire, you will also receive the responses digitally. If you choose paper, you can use this ‘tally sheet‘.
Step 2: Check the information card with tips & tools
Review the results of the scan with a small working group. Does school practice align well with the school's vision and policy? What could be improved? The SGG information cards contain links to information that you can use to develop policy for a sexually respectful and safe school climate.
SGG information card for primary education
SGG information card for secondary and vocational education
Step 3: Create and distribute the SGG roadmap
Step 3 results in school staff receiving an SGG roadmap: a link to a digital document in the school's own environment. In this concise roadmap, every school employee can find what is expected of everyone to prevent sexually transgressive behaviour and what to do in the event of (a suspicion of) an incident.
Step 3 begins with the working group incorporating the results of steps 1 and 2 into the roadmap. Complete the Word template, turn it into a PDF and distribute it to all employees. The roadmap will be a PDF containing mainly references to locations on the school intranet where the correct, up-to-date information can be found on, among other things: the school's vision of social safety / how work is being done to create a sexually respectful climate / which codes of conduct are in place / what to do with suspicions or allegations.
Download the Word template for the SGG roadmap
Not a box to tick, but a way of working
The most important thing, of course, is that all good intentions are actually put into practice. But that is another matter. It is relevant here, however, to note that the above should not be a one-off action leading to a static document. It is about the way of working behind it. Thus, every new staff member receives the roadmap. And perhaps it would be a good idea to remind everyone of it again each year. There will also be updates to policies and resources, so the roadmap will need updating too. And perhaps at some point you will want to repeat the scan: what will the situation be then? But that is for later.