Scenario

Low-level concerns about staff: safeguarding scenario

Managing Safeguarding
Allegations Against Staff

Check whether your staff can identify low-level concerns relating to other members of staff, and know how to respond.

Last reviewed on 1 April 2025
Ref: 2010

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Share these scenarios with your staff to check their:

  • Understanding of how to handle a safeguarding situation
  • Knowledge of your procedures

There are 2 versions of each document:

  • With answers: for you to use, including prompts for how staff should respond
  • Without answers: to send or give to staff, without prompts included

In each document there are 6 scenarios: 3 aimed at primary schools and 3 aimed at secondary schools. Delete the scenarios that don't apply to your phase.

If you send the scenario to staff by email, make sure you use the version without answers. Erase 'low-level concerns about staff' from the file name before attaching it, so staff don't see which safeguarding issue the scenario is about.

If you use the scenario at a staff briefing, make sure you give staff the version without answers.

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