Katie’s Summer
Advanced safeguarding judgement often begins with ambiguous evidence. The task is to update your view without turning uncertainty into either panic or inaction.
Katie’s story reveals information gradually: ordinary holiday material, a sudden distress response, then later disclosure. The point is not to infer risk from travel; it is to notice how evidence changes what can reasonably be believed.
You will be asked what evidence would change your view, not simply whether a clue feels worrying.
Teacher View
Teach
Purpose Build advanced evidence updating without profiling.
Ask What evidence would move you from concern to a stronger conclusion?
Respond
Misconception Ambiguity must be resolved by guessing, or uncertainty means no action is justified.
Protect
Safeguarding Do not ask learners to map these ideas onto real classmates/families.
Adapt & assess
SEND / EAL Use a written evidence table: observed / inferred / assumed / unknown / evidence needed.
Evidence of learning Learner explicitly states what further information would alter their judgement.