This questionnaire is designed to confirm your understanding of MAPA’s Child Safety Policies and the Victorian Child Safe Standards. Please answer all questions honestly and to the best of your ability.

Staff / Teachers Full Name(Required)

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Section 1: Understanding Child Safety at MAPA

1. What is the primary purpose of the Victorian Child Safe Standards?(Required)

To manage staff performance

To ensure the safety, wellbeing, and protection of children

To protect organisations from liability

To promote high-quality teaching outcomes

2. Which statement best reflects MAPA’s commitment to child safety?(Required)

Child safety is the responsibility of management only

Child safety applies only during class time

Child safety is everyone’s responsibility at all times

Child safety is only relevant if an incident occurs

Section 2: Professional Boundaries & Conduct

3. Which of the following is considered appropriate professional behaviour?(Required)

Being alone with a child in a closed room without visibility

Physical corrections without explanation or consent

Maintaining clear professional boundaries at all times

Communicating privately with students via personal social media

4. When providing physical corrections, a teacher should:(Required)

Ask permission, explain the correction, and use minimal contact

Avoid correcting altogether

Correct without asking to avoid interrupting class flow

Only demonstrate verbally

Section 3: Communication & Social Media

5. Which of the following is permitted under MAPA’s child safety expectations?(Required)

Direct messaging students on personal social media accounts

One-on-one private communication without parent knowledge

Communication with students via approved studio platforms only

Sharing rehearsal videos without consent

6. Filming students in class is:(Required)

Always allowed

Allowed only for personal teacher use

Only permitted with approval and never shared without consent

Not regulated

Section 4: Identifying & Responding to Concerns

7. If a child discloses something that raises a concern, your first responsibility is to:(Required)

Promise confidentiality

Investigate the matter yourself

Stay calm, listen, and report the concern to the Director immediately

Discuss it with other teachers

8. Which of the following must be reported? (Select all that apply)(Required)

A child feeling uncomfortable with an interaction

A boundary-crossing behaviour by a staff member

A suspected or disclosed incident, even if unsure

Only incidents with clear evidence

Section 5: Duty of Care & Supervision

9. Teachers are responsible for students:(Required)

Only during their own class

From drop-off to pick-up when under MAPA supervision

Only if paid for that time

Only inside the studio

10. Which scenario requires action?(Required)

A student is waiting alone and distressed

A colleague consistently isolates students

A student asks to speak privately

All of the above

Section 6: Scenario-Based Questions

11. A student asks to stay back alone after class to talk. What steps would you take to ensure child safety while supporting them?(Required)

Ask the student to wait until the end of the day when other students have left

Speak with the student alone in a closed studio to respect their privacy

Ensure the conversation takes place in a visible space and inform another staff member or the Director

Decline to speak with the student to avoid responsibility

12. You notice another staff member frequently texting a student outside of class time. What should you do?(Required)

Ignore it unless the student complains

Speak directly to the staff member and resolve it privately

Ask the student what the messages are about

Report the concern to the Director in line with MAPA’s Child Safety Reporting Procedures