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WorksheetsSSSG Knowledge Test
Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 12mins
The purpose of the Sector-Specific Screening Guide (SSSG) is to help professionals consistently sort out when to be concerned enough to consult with their internal Child Abuse Reporting Guide (CARG) expert and when the situation really does not need consultation.
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False
The Structured Decision Making® (SDM) system is a research- and evidence-based decision-support system intended to support critical thinking and professional judgment.
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False
If a worker discusses a concern with an internal expert, that expert will use the CARG to help decide whether to report these concerns to the Ministry of Social and Family Development Child Protective Service (CPS).
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False
The CARG expert can only use the information provided by the professional reporter at the time the SSSG was completed. The CARG expert should not ask the professional reporter to collect additional information, even if this information is necessary to complete the
CARG.
True
False
The outcomes of the SSSG are:
Consult, Document
Consult, No consult necessary
Immediate consult, Consult, Proceed normally
Immediate consult, Consult, Proceed with caution
None of the above
Definitions can guide information gathering. For example, to complete the area CYP’s Physical Condition (for the education and social service sectors) or Physical Injury (for the health sector), a professional reporter will need to know the impact of physical injury on the child/young person (CYP). If the CYP said that her mother hit her, you are required to ask the CYP, ‘Where did she hit you?’
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False
An example of a simple, objective question a professional reporter can use with a CYP is:
Your uncle did that to you, didn’t he?
What happened after that?
It’s happened before, hasn’t it?
All of the above
None of the above
If the outcome of the SSSG is ‘Immediate Consultation’, the CARG expert must always report the concern to CPS.
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False
Although the SSSG does not require any writing on the tool itself, it may be necessary for professional reporters to document key details as part of their professional responsibilities.
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False
As a professional reporter, if the outcome of the SSSG is green and you still disagree with the outcome, you can consult an internal CARG expert in your sector.
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False
Helpful hints for using the definitions in the SSSG manual include:
Read to the end of the definition
Don’t stretch the definition to suit your needs
Examples are exhaustive
All of the above
A & B only
When evaluating a concern, it is possible for the SSSG to recommend ‘Immediate consult’, the CARG to recommend ‘Report to CPS’, and for the Screening and Response Priority Tool to recommend ‘Screen out’. This is because there are different thresholds for each of these tools—which together act as a filtering process for responses to concerns.
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