What is Grooming?

Learning Area
Inclusive Education
School Area
Early Childhood (PK - 2)
Middle Primary (3-6)
Secondary (7-10)
Senior Secondary (11 - 12)
Leadership
Education Assistants
Business Manager
AITSL Standards Covered
4.4 Maintain student safety
4.5 Use ICT safely, responsibly and ethically
7.1 Meet professional ethics and responsibilities

The focus on the session is recognising and responding to grooming with links to the staff code of conduct. Children and young people can be groomed online or face to face, by a stranger or by someone they know e.g. a family member, friend or professional. Groomers may be male or female and can be any age. Many children and young people don’t understand that they have been groomed or that what has happened is abuse.