PGCE Safeguarding and Child Protection 2

Question 1

KCSIE 2024 introduced strengthened guidance on which area of safeguarding that all schools must address?

Accepted Answer

Filtering and monitoring of online activity, and the importance of online safety as part of the whole school safeguarding approach

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Road safety education

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Nutrition and healthy eating policies

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Financial education for pupils

Question 2

A trainee teacher on placement suspects that a colleague is behaving inappropriately towards a pupil. According to safeguarding procedures, what should they do?

Accepted Answer

Report the concern immediately to the headteacher or, if the concern involves the headteacher, to the chair of governors or the Local Authority Designated Officer (LADO)

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Confront the colleague directly and ask them to stop

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Discuss it with other trainees to get their opinion first

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Ignore it as they are only a trainee and it is not their place to report concerns about staff

Question 3

What is 'contextual safeguarding' and why is it important?

Accepted Answer

An approach that considers the wider environmental factors and contexts in which young people experience harm, including peer groups, schools, neighbourhoods, and online

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Safeguarding that only applies within the school building

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A type of safeguarding that applies only to children under 5

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A government inspection framework for schools

Question 4

Which of the following is an example of peer-on-peer abuse that schools must be prepared to address under KCSIE?

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Sexual harassment, sexual violence, bullying (including cyberbullying), and initiation or hazing-type violence between pupils

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Two pupils having a minor disagreement about a football game

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A pupil helping another pupil with their homework

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Pupils competing against each other in a school sports event

Question 5

What does 'professional curiosity' mean in the context of safeguarding?

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An attitude of mind where practitioners actively question, challenge, and seek to understand what is happening in a child's life rather than accepting information at face value

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Being nosy about colleagues' personal lives

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Reading gossip about pupils on social media

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Only asking questions during formal safeguarding training sessions

Question 6

Under KCSIE, what must happen when a member of staff receives a safeguarding disclosure from a child?

Accepted Answer

The staff member should listen carefully, reassure the child, not promise confidentiality, record the disclosure accurately using the child's own words, and report to the DSL immediately

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The staff member should ask leading questions to gather as much detail as possible

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The staff member should tell the child's parents before reporting to the DSL

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The staff member should wait until the end of the school day to make a report