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Child Development & Early Education vocabulary · Working with Families and Safeguarding

Disclosure

Meaning in child development & early education, with examples

/dɪsˈkləʊʒə/nounCommon term

In child development & early education, disclosure means: The moment when a child tells an adult, directly or indirectly, that they have been harmed or are at risk of harm.

In Turkish: çocuğun anlatması, açıklama, ifşa

How it is used

A safeguarding term: a child makes a disclosure. Training usually tells staff to listen calmly, avoid leading questions, never promise to keep a secret, write down the child's exact words and report to the safeguarding lead.

Example sentences

  1. After the disclosure, she wrote down exactly what the child had said.

  2. A disclosure may come out slowly, in small pieces, over several days.

Common collocations

  • make a disclosure
  • respond to a disclosure
  • record a disclosure
  • partial disclosure
  • safeguardingEverything an organisation does to protect children from harm, abuse and neglect and to promote their health, safety and well-being.
  • child protectionThe procedures and actions taken to protect a particular child who is suffering, or is likely to suffer, significant harm from abuse or neglect.
  • designated safeguarding leadThe trained member of staff who leads on safeguarding in a school or setting, receives staff concerns and decides when to contact children's social care.
  • neglectA form of abuse in which a child's basic needs, such as food, clothing, hygiene, safety, health care or affection, are not met over a period of time.

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