28 October 2024: Earlier this year, theChat project engaged parents and carers to discuss how to support better to communication with young people about sexual health, reproduction and parenthood.

The project was carried out Scotland-wide, on behalf of several NHS health boards.

Conversations with parents – called ‘chats’ – and a national survey have provided insight into life at home and how parents want to support their child from the early years, through childhood and into the teenage years so that they are equipped to be healthy, happy and safe in their friendships and relationships.

A group parents and carers from JGHS participated in one of the ‘chats’ in the Spring of 2024.

theChat report

The final report from the project has just been published

theChat final report