Welcome to the Briefing Room. Here you will find the brief for
the next exercise. By clicking on the sub menu item you can also
access a map of the imaginary town Huntingbridge in which all the
activities take place.
Today you are going to be an Educational Welfare Officer (known as the EWO).
You will be working on a case involving a girl in Year 10 of a secondary school who truants from school. The situation finally develops into a crisis and the girl is at risk of coming to serious harm.
(Look at the notes below – these will advise you about the roles of people involved in this case)
You will receive a series of messages on the computer which help you to understand what the problem is and how the problem developed.
You will use these messages to piece together what is happening but you will also have to make some important decisions on the way. Because you are an EWO these decisions may be very important ones which affect people’s lives!
There will be people that you can ask questions for advice – we call these the experts. There will be:
an EWO and
police officers available to give advice.
You will not be able to talk to them but you can ask them questions live ‘online’ – you will get an answer fairly quickly! Make sure you use their expert knowledge.
At the end there will be a difficult problem to solve. Good luck!
Roles
Tanya and Sophie are 15 years old and are in Year 10. They are generally good students but have good days and bad days!
Tanya does not like to be criticised – she is insecure. A difficulty in class has led to missing lessons in the past.
She and Sophie are good friends – what one does the other tends to go along with.
The Educational Welfare Officer is employed by the school to look after the welfare of students. This involves the following responsibilities:
contact the home in the event of truancy
The Community Beat officer works from the local police station and is assigned to a specific local area so that he/she knows the area and the people, and is known by the residents of the area.
