Safeguarding: Level 3 Quiz - Rachel Buckler Associates

Welcome to your Safeguarding: Level 3 Quiz

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1. Risks and harms for children can often be outside of the family context. These risks can take place online, in communities or for older children when they are at school through child-on-child abuse. Which of the following is the term used to describe these kinds of risks.

Extra familial risks

Additional risks

Frequently occurring risks

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2. Professionally curiosity involves practitioners especially designated safeguarding leads asking questions, probing for details, and pursuing a greater understanding of a situation without accepting it at face value. When we practice professional curiosity, we are being:

Doubtful and suspicious

Respectfully uncertain

Sceptical and dubious

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Child neglect does not always occur in families where poverty or disadvantage is a factor. Some children may experience affluent neglect. A key element of this type of neglect includes which of the following?

A child who doesn’t see their parents very much because they are working long hours.

A child whose parent(s) are emotionally unavailable to their child.

A child who is given lots of material things and who doesn’t appreciate the value of money.

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4. Poor parental mental health continues to be a common factor noted in child in need assessment statistics and tragically features in many safeguarding practice reviews. Whilst there are various risks to young children associated with poor mental heath in parents and carers the main overarching concern recognises which statement?

Poor mental health results in parents not understanding the needs of their child.

Poor mental health results in parents not being able to engage with professionals who could otherwise support and help them and their child.

Poor mental health compromises or prevents parents from providing protective factors that are essential in keeping their children safe and well.

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5. When a designated safeguarding lead is unhappy with an outcome, decision or lack of engagement concerning a child and another professional they will use an escalation or professional resolution procedure. What is the purpose of this procedure and what is it meant to achieve?

Complain about other professionals conduct or behaviour to their line manager.

Challenge the decision or action taken / inactions not taken by the professional so that the concerns are escalated to a more senior practitioner in their organisation for the child’s needs to be met appropriately.

Offer a formal way of recording disagreements between professionals so that this is kept on record should it need to be referred to later.