Module 3: Task: Exploitation and vulnerable situations including specific categories of abuse scenarios

TASK: Your main task for Module 3: Exploitation and vulnerable situations |Duration: 30 minutes

Please note: you may have some crossovers with symptoms you have learnt from Module 2; however, for these questions, use the information you have learnt from Module 3.

TASK: Read the 3 scenarios and answer the question below each scenario. Upload your answers as a PDF in the assignment upload box.

(Remember to label your answers clearly under subheadings ie. Scenario 1)

Scenario 1

A new pupil joined your primary school in October during the Autumn Term. He is a Year 5 pupil whose family has relocated to a new part of the country. You have given him a buddy in your Year 5 class who is a very responsible pupil to help him settle into the class and his new school. However, after one month he does not seem to be making any friends, he has started to become more nervous, and does not join in with other pupils during play time. His parents contacted you, as his class teacher, to say he has started not wanting to come to school in the morning and is now having problems sleeping. He rarely wants to go on his gaming console anymore and if he does, he does not want to say who he has been gaming with or speaking to.

What are the signs in this scenario informing you about what may be happening with this pupil? In your answer write down the signs given in the scenario and link to two potential safeguarding concerns.

Scenario 2

A pupil in your Year 10 class has started to miss school more frequently and you are becoming concerned by her behaviour because when you ask her why she is not attending school, she does not give an answer. When she is in school, her behaviour has changed from being alert, wanting to learn and meeting or in some cases exceeding her target grades to truanting certain classes, not completing her homework and in her Year 10 mocks not attaining any of her target grades. At parents’ evening, her parents said that they are becoming increasingly concerned about the change in her behaviour at home as well as at school. They said that she arrives home from school at varying times, refusing to say where she has been, why she is late and not saying who she has been with. When asked, her school friends say that she has stopped spending time with them outside of school and that there are clear changes in her behaviour towards them, especially what she is posting on social media. She was recently seen with an older ex-pupil known to the police for gang-related crimes. What are the signs in this scenario informing you about what may be happening with this pupil? In your answer write down the signs given in the scenario and link to two potential safeguarding concerns.

What are the signs in this scenario informing you about what may be happening with this pupil? In your answer write down the signs given in the scenario and link to two potential safeguarding concerns.

Scenario 3

You have just taught a PSHE lesson from the scheme of work focusing on several of the important fundamental values of the UK with a Year 9 class. The lesson objectives were to discuss the reasons why mutual respect and tolerance of different faiths and beliefs are important values of the UK. You are concerned about two pupils during the discussion who were unwilling to discuss their own opinion and views. After the lesson, when you were marking their work, you became even more concerned with what they wrote. Both pupils included what they had read online that was clearly against mutual respect and tolerance of different faiths and beliefs and they made it clear that they believed what they read.

What are the signs in this scenario informing you about what may be happening with these two pupils? In your answer write down the signs given in the scenario and link to one potential safeguarding concern.

Please move on to the Module 3 Summary.