Safeguarding question

[Coatandhat]

In school today we had online Safeguarding Training followed by a test. One of the questions was which of these groups is most at risk of bullying behaviour from peers:

a) Girls
b) LGBTQ+
c) Boys
d) High achieving children

Any guesses?

A - any child in a school where bullies are allowed to bully.

And because and boys don’t have other characteristics/family circumstances - or none - that make them victims of bullying.

Was it b), by any chance?

• Oops girls and boys

Damned thumbs

D

I'll go with A or D being the actual answer. But suspect the answer from the assessment was something else?

That's weird (well it's not, I know!) because usually in those sorts of safeguarding training quizzes, the answer to that sort of 'who is most at risk' type of question would be 'all of the above' or 'any child' because it emphasises the point that any child can become a safeguarding concern under certain circumstances and that you shouldn't assume that a child isn't being bullied because they are in a 'low risk' group? You can discuss homophobic bullying specifically during training etc but I don't think you would see this normally as a questioned framed in this way?

Who has been at this I wonder, has it been Stonewalled?

That's a ridiculous question. If a high achieving lesbian is being bullied, is she counted as group a, b or d?

I guess the bullying would be directed at either being a lesbian or a high achiever or a girl?

Just wondering, does the trainer have an online review option, where you can question them on the source/ evidence of the "correct" answer?

The answer was a) but said that "abusive behaviour can also affect boys, those with learning difficulties or disabilities, LGBTQ children and those from different communities."

@OldCrone - that is a very good point

@RockyRocky - it wasn't a real live trainer that you could engage with - it was pages of text

It's a. I've seen a recent bullying study that had some stats on this. SEND kids are second.