Contextual Safeguarding

Name: Contextual Safeguarding
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SKU: 9781447366430
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Contextual Safeguarding explores how to protect young people from harm beyond their homes—at school, in their neighbourhoods, and among friends—where traditional social care focuses on family settings. This approach, tested across the UK and internationally since 2015, offers insights drawn from experiences with child sexual exploitation, criminal exploitation, and peer violence, highlighting the evolving understanding and response to youth safety in diverse contexts.
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Ideal for social care professionals, educators, policymakers, researchers, and students interested in youth safeguarding and community safety beyond the family environment.

This book shares stories from child sexual exploitation, child criminal exploitation and peer violence about what has been learnt from the Contextual Safeguarding approach to understanding harm that happens to young people in their communities and what is required to respond.

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How do we respond to harm faced by young people beyond their front doors? Can practitioners keep young people safe at school, in their neighbourhoods or with their friends when social care systems are designed to work with families?

The Contextual Safeguarding approach has transformed how policymakers, social care leaders, practitioners and researchers understand harm that happens to young people in their communities and what is required to respond. Since 2015, it has been tested across the UK and internationally. This book shares stories from child sexual exploitation, child criminal exploitation and peer violence about what has been learnt on this journey.

For anyone interested in how we safeguard young people beyond their front doors, this book shows how much we have achieved and raises big questions about what more we need to do to ensure young people are safe - whatever the context.

Book Hero Magic summarised reviews for this book. While it's new and still learning, it may not be perfect - your feedback is welcome! HOW HAS THIS BEEN REVIEWED?

Ross Gibson from the University of Strathclyde praises this as an excellent and accessible book that clearly presents the challenges of managing risks faced by children and young people. He believes both students and practitioners will greatly benefit from its insights.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781447366430

Publisher: Bristol University Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 20 July 2023

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Policy Press

Illustration: 8 Tables, black and white; 12 Illustrations, black and white

Contributors:

Contributions by Molly Manister
Contributions by Hannah Millar
Contributions by Elsie Whittington
Contributions by Michelle Lefevre
Contributions by Lisa Bostock
Contributions by Vanessa Bradbury-Leather
Contributions by Lauren Wroe
Contributions by Rachael Owens
Contributions by Paula Skidmore

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 156.0mm

Height: 234.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 238

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Education & Reference Non-Fiction

About the Author

Carlene Firmin is Professor of Social Work at Durham University. She previously worked as a Principal Research Fellow at the University of Bedfordshire, where she developed the Contextual Safeguarding programme. In 2011 Carlene became the youngest black woman to receive an MBE for her seminal work on gang-affected young women in the UK.

Jenny Lloyd is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Durham University. She is a Social and Cultural Human Geographer whose work crosscuts issues of child protection, peer-on-peer abuse, applied social research, education, ethnography and children's rights.