Symptoms & Indicators

These indicators are not intended

to be exhaustive.

Education

• Absence and persistent absence
• Request for extended leave of absence and failure to return from visits to country of origin
• Surveillance by siblings or cousins at school
• Decline in behaviour, engagement, performance or punctuality
• Being withdrawn from school by those with parental responsibility
• Not allowed to attend extra- curricular activities
• Sudden announcement of engagement to a stranger
• Prevented from going on to further/higher education