Why Might Someone Stay Silent?
Silence, delay and changing accounts can have many explanations. Safe support keeps uncertainty and dignity in view.
This level adds the idea that people may minimise, retract or change what they say without that automatically proving either truth or falsehood.
Teacher View
Teach
Purpose Develop empathy without teaching credulity.
Ask How can we take a changing account seriously without assuming we know why it changed?
Respond
Misconception Retraction proves the original concern was false, or silence proves abuse.
Protect
Safeguarding Do not invite disclosures; model non-pressuring language and honest limits to confidentiality.
Adapt & assess
SEND / EAL Use barrier categories: emotional / practical / social / safety-related.
Evidence of learning Learner gives a patient, non-leading response to changing information.