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CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE MATERIAL

TASK 1:

CHALLENGES you face around this issue

a. Part of children’s way of life

b. Children feel connected on here

c. Everything in life is around it

d. Internet use is mostly at home – pre, post, weekends – our rules don’t apply at home

e. Covid has increased use of internet and phones/laptops/iPads – promoted use by government and lack of other connection/interaction or activity

f. Students can be groomed

g. VPN blockage – students know how to do this – tech savvy

h. Partnership with parents can be difficult

i. Other family members/guardians feel they lack authority to take away internet

j. Educating parents

k. Children don’t understand risk associated with online interaction

l. AI – tracing victims and abusers

· RELEVANCE to your community/context

a. Relevant to all communities

b. Internet restrictions – VPN in Asia

c. In staff care during school time – duty of care

d. Policies and procedures in schools

· SUCCESSES you have had in tackling this issue already

a. Online safety training available for staff

b. Online friendship training – Digital citizenship lessons

c. Parent education – workshop invites

· What you want to further EXPLORE around this topic…

a. Parental controls in China!

b. Influence and impact of AI on mapping faces and scenery, and tracing victims and abusers more difficult

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[Doreen Stribbell]

Group 3 Trauma Informed Practice

Relevance to our community – Significant; attachment is the biggest factor as a result of high divorce rate; high levels of family separation and helper culture

Challenges we face – educating/reaching the community; continuing to prepare for transitions PK – Grade 12. Affluent neglect.

Successes – Safe, predictable and empathetic environment. Teaching students to share how they are feeling (Tiger Traits/ATLs). Establishing key person for students. Staff training and vigilance. Safeguarding pillars.

Explore – Methods of engaging various groups to support trauma informed practice – parent/grandparent seminars, helper seminars.

[Ruben du Plooy]

1. CHALLENGES you face around this issue

· Students being exposed to sexual content.

· Cultural differences leading to possible sexual harassment.

2. RELEVANCE to your community/context

· Students from different cultures/backgrounds. Differences in acceptable behaviour.

3. SUCCESSES you have had in tackling this issue already

· Defining (sexual) harassment and what behaviour is acceptable.

· Use of surveillance cameras to keep students safe at school.

· Policies are in place to keep children safe.

· Creating a culture where students feel safe, and teachers have clear steps to report possible violence/harassment.

4. What you want to further EXPLORE around this topic…

· Learn from peers’ experiences in the sessions in other schools and communities.

· Policies and procedures being in step with Chinese laws.

· Do people in charge of Safeguarding miss out on situations where peer pressure is prevalent due to language barriers.

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Mental Health

RELEVANCE- we find this is very relevant! Especially if we consider the mental health of staff, students and parents collectively. Post covid, students are struggling to adjust to being back in the classroom, and also recover from the uncertainty and trauma they have been through during this time. We believe this will be an ongoing issue for schools across the world. Some cultures have a lot of focus on academics and students can feel under pressure to achieve, leading to stress and mental health concerns. Students can face self esteem issues.

CHALLENGES- it is not always possible to monitor all students and communicate effectively in large schools. Training staff to recognise warning signs is important, but has not always taken place enough yet. Older students that are going through mental health issues often do not want their parents to know, for various reasons. Not having someone at home to support them can be a barrier to progress.

SUCCESSES- many teachers have great relationships with students and can build trust, in order for students to open up to them. Some schools are opening holistic, wellbeing programmes and are beginning to teach students about recognising emotions and having a toolkit to regulate them.

EXPLORE- how to work more effectively with parents, especially across different cultures, or with families with different values. How to destigmatize/demystify mental health in general for students and their families. How to support students who are neurodivergent when their mental health issues come from their neurodivergent brain functioning differently to a neurotypical student and society’s ‘norms’?

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Section 4 – Affluent Neglect

Challenges: absent parenting, lack of parent support, parents having to work overseas for their role, parents not informing the school when they are away, students living with nannies/helpers/grandparents. language barriers, parents think schools should offer more after school activities

Relevant – leads to behaviour issues, pressure on sts to participate in activities that they might not want to and the feeling of parents not wanting to spend time with them, push back from parents to provide additional ‘child care’.

Successes – spoke with a dad, explanded that his son felt like he didn’t spend anytime with him , missed his mum and sister, dad ended up spending a week wiht his son during week without walls and the son’s whole demeanour changed. Teacher/Parent workshop or Admin/Parent workshop – helped parents have a better understanding of children’s’ struggles, hihg attendance at digital safety workshops.

We didn’t have time to discuss point 4. -Explore! Sorry!