Safeguarding Quiz 2023

Safeguarding Multiple Choice 2023

Complete 20 multiple choice questions to test your knowledge of the latest safeguarding guidance. After answering each question, an explanation and the section of KCSIE further information will follow.

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Name

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1. Who is responsible for safeguarding children and young people?

a) The headteacher and senior leadership team

b) The designated safeguarding lead and any deputies

c) Teaching and support staff

d) Everyone

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2. When taking a disclosure of abuse from a child, which of the following should a staff member NOT do?

a) Reassure victims that they will be supported to stay safe

b) Tell the pupil’s class teachers, support workers and parents so that they are informed

c) Record the information

d) Report the information to the DSL using the school’s safeguarding procedures and systems

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3. Any child can benefit from the Early Help process but KCSIE lists certain groups of whom staff should be particularly alert. Which of the groups below are NOT listed as being more vulnerable to needing Early Help?

a) Pupils who are privately fostered

b) Pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND)

c) Pupils in families with a sole caregiver

d) Pupils who are young carers

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4. Which form of abuse includes a parent or caregiver fabricating the symptoms of or deliberately inducing illness in a child?

a) Emotional abuse

b) Neglect

c) Physical abuse

d) Child exploitation

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5. Which of the following is NOT an indicator of emotional abuse?

a) Having firm rules and boundaries at home

b) Conveying to a child that they are worthless or unloved

c) Overprotection, including preventing a child from from participating in normal social interaction

Not giving a child the chance to express their views by deliberately silencing them or ‘making fun’ of what they say or how they communicate

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6. Which of the following statements about child sexual abuse is false?

a) Children cannot commit sexual abuse against another child

b) It is only classed as sexual abuse if there is physical contact with a child

c) Males are the sole perpetrators of sexual abuse

d) All of the above

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7. Neglect is defined as ‘the persistent failure to meet a child’s basic physical and/or psychological needs, likely to result in the serious impairment of the child’s health or development.’ Which of the following situations shows the strongest indicator that a child is experiencing neglect?

a) A child who is temporarily sent away from the family home to live with grandparents for a few days before returning

b) A child who is left under the supervision of inadequate caregivers on a daily basis and is frequently told they are unlovable and worthless

c) A child who sometimes doesn’t complete their homework or home reading because their parents forget to help them

d) A child who is having to apply a prescribed, medicated cream to their hands and arms because of recurring bouts of eczema during the winter

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8. Which statement about child-on-child abuse is false?

a) If there are no reports of child-on-child abuse in a setting, then it has outstanding safeguarding procedures

b) All staff should be clear about the setting’s policy and procedures around child-on-child abuse

All staff should challenge inappropriate behaviour, such as sexual harassment being dismissed as “just part of growing up”

d) Child-on-child abuse can occur in and out of school, both online and offline

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9. In the context of child-on-child abuse, what is ‘hazing’?

a) Taking a picture under a person’s clothing without their permission

b) Activities involving harassment, abuse or humiliation, used as a way of initiating a person into a group

c) Non-consensual sharing of nude and semi-nude images and videos

d) Abuse in intimate personal relationships between children and young people

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10. Which specific safeguarding issue involves any child who has been coerced into engaging in sexual activities, including 16- and 17-year-olds who can legally consent to have sex?

a) Children Missing from Education (CME)

b) Child Criminal Exploitation (CCE)

c) Child Sexual Exploitation (CSE)

d) Female Genital Mutilation (FGM)

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11. Which of the following statements about domestic abuse is true?

a) Children cannot be victims of domestic abuse as this occurs between adults

b) Domestic abuse always contains a physical element, such as violence between two adults

c) Domestic abuse can include, but is not limited to, psychological, physical, sexual, financial or emotional abuse

d) Domestic abuse only affects a child’s mental health and wellbeing

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12. What terminology is used to describe children who are exploited by criminal gangs to move, store and sell drugs through coercion, intimidation and violence?

a) Honour-based violence

b) County lines

c) Cuckooing

d) Gang and youth violence

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13. Which of the following statements about Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) is true?

a) There is a legal duty for the DSL and/or teachers to report cases of FGM that they have discovered to the police

b) FGM only happens to children from certain African countries

c) Pupils always travel to another country for an extended period of time if FGM is going to take place

d) FGM only happens when a pupil is under the age of 11

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14. Which of the following could indicate that a pupil is at risk from, or involved with, serious violent crime?

a) A change in friendships

b) Signs of self-harm

c) Unexplained injuries

d) All of the above

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15. What is the Prevent Duty?

a) A PSHE programme that schools and colleges can follow to prevent sexual violence and harassment between children (child-on-child abuse)

b) Part of the Early Help process where a group of professionals work together to prevent pupils from experiencing further harm

c) The duty of schools and colleges to prevent pupils from being drawn into extremism and terrorism

d) Part of the process when referring a safeguarding case to the local authority children’s social care team (e.g. What has the setting already done to prevent pupils from experiencing further harm?)

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16. When reporting a safeguarding concern, which of the following statements is false?

a) If the DSL or deputy DSL is unavailable, staff can make referrals directly to the local authority children’s social care team

b) Staff must ensure they are very careful about what information is shared under the Data Protection Act (DPA) and UK GDPR regulations. If in doubt, they should hold off reporting a safeguarding concern until they are sure they can be compliant with the law

c) Some safeguarding concerns can be managed internally and will not need to be escalated to Early Help or the local authority children’s social care team

d) The reporting of any safeguarding concern should be done immediately

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17. What is contextual safeguarding?

a) Consideration of a child’s context outside of the school setting in order for children’s social care to make accurate assessments around the risk of harm to them

b) Staff having awareness of the key types of safeguarding issues that are likely to occur within your setting’s context, e.g. neglect, bullying

c) The process of keeping up to date with new paragraphs and context added to KCSIE

d) A method for mapping out potential safeguarding risks to a child when they have a change of context, such as parental separation or bereavement

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18. If you had a concern about a DBS-checked volunteer harming a child in your setting, who would you raise this
with?

a) The DSL

b) The headteacher/principal

c) The chair of governors

d) All of the above

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19. Which of the following statements around safeguarding record keeping is false?

a) All concerns, discussions and decisions, including the reasons for decision-making, should be recorded in writing

b) Safeguarding information should be kept confidential and stored securely

c) It is good practice to keep all safeguarding information of individual pupils in one large file, in order to quickly access relevant information

d) Serious case reviews have identified poor record keeping as being a factor in children not being kept safe

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20. Which of the following have been identified in serious case reviews as examples of poor safeguarding practice, therefore prolonging child protection issues?

a) Failing to act early when concerns have been identified and sharing this information too slowly, including poor record keeping

b) Failure to listen to the views of the child and failure to reassess when situations do not improve

c) A lack of challenge to those who appear not to be taking actions as well as not sharing information with the right people, including within and between agencies

d) All of the above

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