A disclosure is not an invitation to investigate alone. Listen. Thank the student. Check immediate safety. Record only what your school procedure requires.
Explain who you need to involve and why. Protect privacy on a need-to-know basis, and keep the staff room, the teacher chat and the class group out of it entirely.
This week
This week: find and read your school’s current safeguarding procedure, and write down who you would contact first.
School staff pack
- Find your school’s current written safeguarding procedure and read it before you need it.
- Write the designated contact’s name and number in your help plan today.
- Record only what the procedure requires, in the school’s own system, on the day.
- Keep the staff room, the teacher chat and the class group out of every case.
- A disclosure is not an invitation to investigate alone.
Whichever pack you read
The standard does not change
Whichever pack you read, every adult practises the same three behaviours: a non-blaming first response, no new copies of a sexual image of a child, and an urgent case treated as urgent.