In the film, Australian celebrity Rolf Harris is in a park with a group of four children and tells them about proper and improper physical intimacy, which he calls "yes" and "no" feelings.

Kids Can Say No!, released in October 1985 on VHS in the United Kingdom, was the first British children's film about sexual abuse and was purchased by police forces, educational institutions, and libraries across Europe.

Upon the film's release, The Times obtained opinions from four sexual-abuse experts, who unanimously opposed using Kids Can Say No!

During the trial, it was learned that, while Harris was filming Kids Can Say No!, he was in the midst of a casual sexual relationship with his daughter Bindi's best friend and, by its release, he had committed nine of the twelve assaults.

According to Richard Guilliatt and Jacquelin Magnay in an article in The Australian, Harris's campaign against paedophilia in Kids Can Say No!

[1] In Kids Can Say No!, Australian celebrity Rolf Harris appears with four children between the ages of seven and eight[2] and warns them about paedophiles.

[4] The film ends with "My Body" sung by a group of people including Harris, two police officers, and some children.

[7] He was also inspired by a similar Australian production[3] and a Swedish film about two children befriended by a large man on a farm.

[1] Harris, then host of Rolf's Cartoon Time, approached the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) and the Tavistock Clinic with his idea about making a film on child sexual abuse.

[12] Harris approached director Jessica Skippon, with whom he had made a film about water safety,[6] and said that he wanted to make Kids Can Say No!

was made in London with input from Carolyn Okell Jones, an expert on child abuse,[4] and was filmed on Hampstead Heath in 1985.

In an interview, he said that his role of talking with children about sexual abuse in the film was a natural one because "my track record has made me a believable person.

[7] In April 1986, Harris met with Western Australia Police officials and members of several state-government departments in Mount Hawthorn to propose another film for children about how to handle sexual predators.

[9] Although several other short children's educational films about sexual abuse were on the market in the UK including several also released that year, Kids Can Say No!

The 56-year-old Harris, who was chosen to be master of ceremonies for the three-day conference's opening event because of his celebrity and involvement with the film, told the audience that paedophilia was finally "coming out from under its veil of secrecy".

[14] After the release of Kids Can Say No!, many teachers who showed the film to their students reported receiving disclosures of abuse.

encourages children to report abuse they experience and Beyond the Scare advises teachers about what to do if a child makes such a disclosure.

The Tavistock Clinic helped with the film's production, and an expert from the organisation appears on-camera to promote child protection projects in schools.

on YouTube and wanted to show it at trial for its unintentional irony, but the film was ruled irrelevant to the case and not admitted as evidence.

[9] After the trial began, Jessica Skippon issued a legal warning to media outlets not to use the film without written permission.

[12] Southwark Crown Court found Harris guilty of all twelve counts of indecent assault.

[18] The last assault of which Harris was convicted occurred several weeks after his meeting with officials in Western Australia to propose another film about child sexual abuse.

is "muddling, evasive and pussy-footed, best not for children at all, but as ... aids for parents and professional workers to alert them to paedophilia and incest".

[5] In a 1988 Sydney Morning Herald review, Judith Whelan writes that Harris is more serious in the film than he was when performing "Jake the Peg".

resurfaced in 2014, Peter Walker wrote in The Guardian that the film "illustrates with grim eloquence, in retrospect, the prosecution notion that [Harris] was a man of two distinct sides: the avuncular and trustworthy public figure, and lurking behind, the groper and abuser".

[6] According to Richard Guilliatt and Jacquelin Magnay in an article in The Australian, Harris' campaign against paedophilia in Kids Can Say No!