2019-03-07
This document is designed to support practitioners to undertake assessments which are holistic in nature – taking into account both the context of children’s experiences within their family home and in other social spaces.
2019-03-07
To support practitioners consider contexts beyond individual children and their families, we have developed three new assessment triangles: one for schools, peers and neighbourhoods.
2019-02-11
These two documents provide guidance on how to carry out a peer group assessment and peer group mapping.
2019-02-11
This document outlines the principles of peer group assessment and practical guidance for practitioners on undertaking peer group assessment.
2020-02-10
The following case studies were shared by a Contextual Safeguarding practitioner in Hackney. They show how peer mapping has been used to support casework with connected young people affected by extra-familial harm. The maps in this briefing have been anonymised and re-created based on the original mapping that was conducted for these cases.
2019-02-06
This section of the implementation toolkit contains a case study example of creating incident maps using GIS to safeguard young people from extra-familial risk. This page also contains other resources for embedding contextual safeguarding in ‘front-door’ referral services.
2018-03-26
This document contains guidance, exercises and a safety planning sheet to help you carry out safety mapping.
2019-03-19
When you start to incorporate contexts into assessments you then need to think about how to prioritise contextual interventions. Working through this challenge is what we call ‘Context Weighting’.
2018-05-01
A range of tools for carrying out a school assessment including: videos, student and parent surveys, staff engagement and an assessment framework.
2019-03-01
This harmful sexual behaviour framework was developed to support practitioners with a framework to discuss cases of HSB in multi-agency planning meetings.
This resource includes a template table that can be adapted and a video tutorial of how to use the tool. Although the tool was developed specifically for HSB, it may be adjusted for other forms of extra-familial harm.
2018-10-26
Tools to support practitioners to carry out a contextual assessment within a neighbourhood context including a suite of different assessment methods.
2019-03-07
A guide to support staff, practitioners, professionals and partner agencies working with children, families and the community to language child vulnerability with specific reference to CSE and CCE.
2019-05-29
Youth engagement methods and resources for working with young people to inform contextual approaches.
2019-02-27
This document has been produced to share how thinking in one local area has developed in relation to building explicit reference to context into child protection conferences.
2019-02-27
Guidance supporting practitioners to consider how to carry out a Context Safeguarding Conference.
2019-02-22
Guidance, exemplars and a podcast on establishing holistic/integrated meeting to hold oversight of extra-familial concerns in the area.
2018-03-13
This framework includes guidance and documents to help you carry out a contextual case consultation.
2019-02-27
This document has been produced to share how thinking in one local area has developed in relation to building explicit reference to context into child protection conferences.
2019-02-27
Guidance supporting practitioners to consider how to carry out a Context Safeguarding Conference.
2019-02-22
Guidance, exemplars and a podcast on establishing holistic/integrated meeting to hold oversight of extra-familial concerns in the area.