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Use the novel with clear ground rules, a prepared safeguarding route and Freedom Charity’s accompanying PSHE Association Quality Mark resources. The Quality Mark applies to the resources, not the novel.
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Cut Flowers is first a story: vivid, accessible and led by friendship. Its wider purpose is to help readers recognise hidden harm, talk safely and understand where responsible help begins.
Use the novel with clear ground rules, a prepared safeguarding route and Freedom Charity’s accompanying PSHE Association Quality Mark resources. The Quality Mark applies to the resources, not the novel.
Plan safe teaching →Find verified bibliographic details, cover artwork, acquisition guidance and a responsible route to stock, catalogue and display the book.
Open the acquisition page →Discuss friendship, bodily autonomy, inherited silence and moral courage without asking readers to disclose personal experience.
Open the discussion guide →Use the story as a carefully framed conversation opener in staff training or community education, alongside current clinical, statutory and local safeguarding guidance. It is not a clinical or legal manual.
Open the professional route →Preview the story, understand its safeguarding context and use calm, choice-led ways to talk about it at home without seeking personal disclosure.
Read the parent and carer guide →Begin with Katie, Sophia, music and friendship. The young people’s area uses fictional situations and gives a safe next step if something causes concern.
Explore the reader area →Find verified publication facts, attributed reviews, genuine images, primary-source links and routes for interviews, speaking, research and festival enquiries.
Use the media room →Discuss translation, territorial publishing, education partnerships and adaptation through the official rights route. Availability and rights are confirmed for each proposal.
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