2021-09-13
When a young person is at risk of extra-familial harm, they might be moved out of their home area for their safety. As part of the Securing Safety study, we have spoken to young people,
parents and professionals with experience of this type of intervention. Based on what they told us, these info-sheets highlight key things for young people, parents and professionals to consider when a move is on the table.
2021-03-30
This document helps practitioners to understand Public Health, Problem-solving and Contextual Safeguarding approaches as three complementary evidence-based approaches to violence reduction.
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.