A quarter of secondary teachers and support staff have been asked for help by pupils in abusive relationships, it has been revealed.
Research from the NSPCC and the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL) has also found that 43 per cent of professionals are not confident that they would be able to identify whether a pupil is experiencing abuse of this kind.
However, 42 per cent said that during the past two years they had suspected a student was in an abusive relationship, while 29 per cent said they had worried about this on more than one occasion.
The research also reveals the range of issues that students have approached staff about. Those who had been asked for help by students said that 75 per cent were worried about emotional abuse, 60 per cent about controlling behaviour, 36 per cent about physical abuse, and 29 per cent about sexual abuse.
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