Podcast

Conducting a neighbourhood assessment

2021-01-20

Jenny Lloyd (Senior Research Fellow) talks to Kelly Shannon (Practice Lead for Child Exploitation) at Swansea’s Children Services about her reflections on conducting a neighbourhood assessment in Swansea – which is one of the test sites implementing Contextual Safeguarding.

Family Group Conferencing with young people experiencing extra-familial harm

2021-01-14

Vanessa Bradbury (Contextual Safeguarding team) talks to Kent County Council’s Family Group Conference team managers, Clare Barton and Mark Buckingham, about the innovative work they are doing to expand Family Group Conferencing practice to include responses to young people experiencing extra-familial harm.

Contextual Safeguarding in a lower-tier authority

2020-12-11

Sophie Whitehouse (Early Help and Wellbeing Lead) and Madeleine Tester (Contextual Safeguarding Coordinator) from Adur & Worthing Councils share how they have been embedding Contextual Safeguarding approaches with a range of community partners to map out and respond to concerns of extra-familial harm within peer groups and in public spaces.

Sports Cages: Places of safety, places of harm, places of potential

2020-11-03

Luke Billingham (youth worker at Hackney Quest) tells us why sports cages can be hugely important for young people and whole communities, and offers guidance as to how Contextual Safeguarding can maximise their potential as positive and safe neighbourhood spaces.

Applying thresholds to extra-familial harm

2019-10-18

Sarah Wright (Director of Children and Families) and Lisa Aldridge (Head of Safeguarding and Learning) talk about how Hackney revised its child and family thresholds document to consider extra-familial harm and developed a new threshold document relating specifically to contexts.

Contextual Safeguarding in A&E

2019-09-13

Niamh Ni-Longain, Consultant in Adult and Paediatric Emergency Medicine at Homerton Hospital in Hackney shares her thoughts on the implications of Contextual Safeguarding when working with young people in A&E.

Integrating youth work with Contextual Safeguarding in health settings

2019-09-05

Redthread works with young people who have experienced harm by integrating trauma-informed youth work into the health sector. Lucy Knell-Taylor (London Programme Manager) discusses why and how Redthread uses contextual approaches, such as safety and peer group mapping, to support young people.

Setting up a youth panel

2019-08-15

In this podcast Ciara Burke (Contextual Safeguarding practitioner) shares her experience of setting up a youth panel to inform the Contextual Safeguarding project in Hackney and reflects on learning from this process.

South Kent Adolescent Pilot

2019-04-04

What contextual safeguarding means to Hackney's youth panel

2019-04-03

Hackney's youth panel, 'Hackney Elite', reflect on what contextual safeguarding means to them and talk about their work with the Contextual Safeguarding team in Hackney.

Hackney's Extra-Familial Risk Panel

2019-03-05

In this podcast Cathal Ryan, Service Manager in Hackney, explains what the Extra-Familial Risk Panel (EFRP) is, why it was developed and how is has been used in Hackney.

Reviewing policies for partnership engagement in contextual approaches

2019-03-05

Rachael Owens, Practice Development Manager in the Contextual Safeguarding team in Hackney, explains how Hackney reviewed and created policies for partnership engagement to address extra-familial risk.

Introducing contextual approaches to assessments

2019-03-05

In this podcast Rachael Owens, Practice Development Manager in the Contextual Safeguarding team in Hackney, explains how Hackney has introduced contextual approaches to its assessments.

Reviewing policies for thresholds and allocation of referrals

2019-03-05

In this podcast Rachael Owens, Practice Development Manager in the Contextual Safeguarding team in Hackney, explains how Hackney has contextualised its thresholds and allocation of referrals policies.

Reviewing overaching policies and protocols

2019-03-05

In this podcast Rachael Owens, Practice Development Manager in the Contextual Safeguarding team in Hackney, explains how Hackney embedded Contextual Safeguarding in its overarching policies and protocols.

Recording peer groups in a MASH

2019-01-29

Pete Allen, Contextual Safeguarding Researcher explains how Hackney's First Access and Screening Team (MASH equivalent) is recording peer groups.

Contextualising case management systems

2018-06-28

Ross Tuckley is part of a working group in Hackney's Children and Families Services which is looking at developing Mosaic (the social work case management system) to record peer group and location referrals. In this podcast, Ross tells us about the work he has been leading on Mosaic in Hackney.

Hackney Wick and Islington through young people's eyes

2018-05-09

Luke Billingham (Hackney Quest) and Tania Townsend (Islington Council) have both been involved in projects in Hackney Wick and Islington to capture the thoughts of children and young people, their concerns and their experience of living in their community, what is (or isn't) changing, and what improvements they would like to see.

What is participatory engagement?

2018-04-25

In this podcast Dr Camille Warrington (International Centre) introduces the idea of participatory engagement with young people and explores the different ways engagement can occur. This podcast was originally published on the Our Voices website as part of the International Centre's Our Voices programme of work.

Conducting safety mapping

2018-03-26

In this podcast Simone Nyarko (Contextual Safeguarding team in Hackney) introduces us to the safety mapping exercise. The podcast is supported by the Safety Mapping Exercise guidance document.

Carrying out Contextual Safeguarding case consultations

2018-03-14

In this podcast Shaba Dachi provides an overview for practitioners on when, why and how to carry out a Contextual Safeguarding Case Consultation. Shaba also shares key learning from the process to support practitioners to implement. This podcast supports the case consultation guidance document.

Developing practice: Working with marginalised groups

2018-02-14

In this podcast, Jahnine Davis (Center of Expertise on Child Sexual Abuse) discusses developing practice for working with marginalised groups and what this means for implementing trauma informed responses. If you have any questions Jahnine can be contacted via jahnine.davis@csacentre.org.uk.

Carrying out focus groups with young people: key considerations for practitioners

2018-02-14

In this podcast, Liz Ackerley (International Centre) outlines the importance of participatory methods and key considerations for practitioners when carrying out focus groups with young people.

Developmental considerations for safeguarding adolescents

2018-02-14

In this podcast, Dez Holmes (Research in Practice) discusses the need for a new model for safeguarding adolescents, focusing on the importance of understanding adolescent development and using participatory methods.

Gangs, exploitation and violence - research in practice

2018-02-14

In this podcast, Carlene Firmin discusses gangs, exploitation and violence with Pivotal Education.

Contextual Safeguarding in the Voluntary Sector: Using participatory methods

2018-02-14

In this podcast Abi Billinghurst (Abianda) discusses participatory methods, and its importance for Contextual Safeguarding in the voluntary sector.