Schools and colleges
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 →One story · many ways to use it
Find the right route into the book.
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.
The Education Hub offers three age/depth routes: 11–13, 13–15 and 15–18, each with ten progressive stages. These are teaching routes, not an automatic suitability rating for every reader. Preview the material and follow safeguarding guidance. Pupils do not each need to own the book.
Choose an age/depth route → · Prepare to teach safely → · Read a preview →
Booksellers and libraries
Find verified bibliographic details, cover artwork, acquisition guidance and a responsible route to stock, catalogue and display the book.
Open the acquisition page →Book clubs and reading groups
Discuss friendship, bodily autonomy, inherited silence and moral courage without asking readers to disclose personal experience.
Open the discussion guide →Hospitals, health and safeguarding professionals
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 →Parents and carers
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 →Young readers
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 →Journalists, festivals and researchers
Find verified publication facts, attributed reviews, genuine images, primary-source links and routes for interviews, speaking, research and festival enquiries.
Use the media room →Publishers and international partners
Discuss translation, territorial publishing, education partnerships and adaptation through the official rights route. Availability and rights are confirmed for each proposal.
Enquire about rights →