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Keeping Children with Additional Needs Safe in Education: Peer on Peer Abuse and Children with PMLD
Children with PMLD can be abused by other children even under close supervision. Learn to notice it when they can't tell you.
- 57 minutes
- Recorded webinar
- 1 CPD hour
- Certificate
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What you'll learn
- Explain why close supervision doesn't rule out abuse between children with PMLD
- Recognise signs that a child with PMLD is being harmed by another child
- Use communication passports so every adult knows how a child says no
- Build consent and respect into personal care and daily routines
- Tailor safeguarding training and parent conversations to your own pupils
About this course
"It couldn't happen here. There's always an adult with them." It's easy to believe in a class of children with PMLD, and it's one reason abuse between children goes unnoticed. KCSIE's guidance on peer-on-peer abuse, also called child-on-child abuse, applies to every setting, but most of it was written with talking, mobile teenagers in mind.
A safeguarding trainer and a PMLD specialist translate it for your pupils. You'll see what abuse can look like for a child who can't speak up or move away: deliberate noise or flashing lights to cause distress, or a wheelchair jolted on purpose. And you'll learn which changes in behaviour tell you something is wrong.
The prevention side is just as practical. Build communication passports so every adult knows how each child says no, make consent part of personal care, and shape staff training and conversations with parents around the children you actually teach.
- For early career teachers, governors and 5 other roles. All phases.
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