Stands for
DC — Appearing to cooperate with professionals while continuing harmful behaviour or withholding information.
How it works in KallosSim
- In practice language — Appearing to cooperate with professionals while continuing harmful behaviour or withholding information.
- What it means — Disguised compliance describes a pattern where a parent or carer presents as cooperative and engaged with professional involvement but is in fact concealing ongoing risk, managing professional impressions rather than changing behaviour. Serious Case Reviews — including the Baby Peter case — have identified disguised compliance as a recurring factor in missed harm. Indicators include: superficially positive home visits where underlying issues persist, engagement with process (attending appointments) without engagement with change, and professionals recording 'cooperating' based on manner rather than outcomes. Professional curiosity — asking direct, specific questions about behaviour and outcomes — is the primary counter.
- In KallosSim — Cases and formative debriefs may reference this concept when your sector pack and card selections call for it.
Training only. Fictional AI-generated cases only — not legal advice, not live decision support, not a substitute for supervision.
What it is not
- A substitute for reading primary statute or your organisation’s procedures.
- Competence assessment, ASYE sign-off, or Bar / SRA / CIPD accreditation.
- Advice for a live family, employee, client, or court matter.