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Adapt to changing circumstances

How to adapt to changing circumstances. This is important when information or the risk to the student or family changes.

Schools

Child safety guidance for teachers, educators and staff working in schools.

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At all times

Throughout the 4 Critical Actions, you must:

The 4 Critical Actions to identify and respond to child abuse are:

  • Identify
  • Support
  • Refer
  • Report

Child abuse can take many forms. See types of child abuse and what to look for.

It is important that you adapt to changing circumstances, such as when you identify new information or the risk to the student or family changes.

To adapt to changing circumstances, you may need to:

  • switch to a different source of abuse
  • change the order of the critical actions
  • undertake more than one of the critical actions at the same time
  • repeat one or more of the critical actions
  • repeat steps within a critical action – for example share information with Information Sharing Entities.

For examples about adapting to changing circumstances, see case studies.

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