Ten questions on the law and the reality. Name: Score: _____ / 10
1. The age of consent in the UK is 16. Intimate images of a 16-year-old are:
A) Legal, because 16 is the age of consent
B) Legal within a relationship
C) Illegal to make, hold or share, because the person is under 18
D) Legal if the person took them themselves
2. A sports coach begins a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old they train. This is:
A) Legal, both are over the age of consent
B) A criminal offence, because the coach holds a position of trust
C) Only a problem if the club has a rule against it
D) Legal if the 17-year-old agrees
3. Which of these is a criminal offence?
A) Sharing an intimate image of someone without consent
B) Threatening to share an intimate image
C) Making a sexually explicit deepfake of a real person
D) All of the above
4. The "daylight test" for a healthy relationship asks:
A) Whether you only meet during the day
B) Whether friends have met them, nothing needs secrecy, and nobody holds anything over the other
C) Whether your parents approve of everything
D) Whether you post about them online
5. A partner demands your passwords and tracks your location, and you feel unable to see friends. In law this can be:
A) Normal in a serious relationship
B) Controlling and coercive behaviour, a criminal offence
C) Only a problem if they hit you
D) A sign they care
6. Someone you have been chatting to gets an image and immediately demands money. The first move is:
A) Pay quickly to make it stop
B) Do not pay, stop replying, save evidence, block, and tell an adult
C) Send another image to prove you are calm
D) Delete everything and hope
7. Why does paying a sextortion demand not work?
A) It usually does work
B) Paying proves the lever works, so the demands continue
C) Payment apps refund it
D) It only fails for adults
8. A deepfake image of a classmate is created. Which is true?
A) Nothing can be done because it is not a real photo
B) It is criminal territory and a safeguarding matter, and the shame belongs to the maker
C) It is the classmate's fault for posting photos
D) It is only a problem if it looks real
9. At KS4, who most often notices exploitation first?
A) The person being exploited
B) Teachers
C) Friends
D) Parents
10. Your friend made you promise not to tell anyone about a demand they are facing. The right thing is:
A) Keep the promise no matter what
B) Stay loyal by helping them bring in an adult, because some things are bigger than a promise
C) Post about it to warn people
D) Handle the blackmailer yourself
Answer Key (Teacher Copy)
1. C. The single most surprising legal fact for this age group: the image law runs to 18 regardless of the consent age or the relationship, and it includes self-taken images. This is not to criminalise young people but to explain why images are the exploiter's chosen weapon and why the safeguarding response, per KCSIE 2026, is protective rather than punitive. 2. B. Positions of trust. The category was extended by Parliament after real cases involving coaches and faith leaders. 3. D. All three, including deepfakes now explicitly. 4. B. The daylight test, which respects that pupils have real relationships while sharpening the distinction. 5. B. Coercive control is a criminal offence between connected people aged 16 or over. Naming it legally gives pupils and their friends a frame. 6. B. and 7. B. The four moves, and why payment fails. Watch the room on these two. 8. B. Criminal, safeguarding, and the shame is the maker's. 9. C. The friend-as-first-responder point, which is why so much of the lesson is aimed at what bystanders do. 10. B. Reframing loyalty as helping them reach help. If a pupil answers this heavily, follow up privately.