Professor Carlene Firmin discusses the implementation of contextual safeguarding in five local authority areas: what works well, and where more work is needed.
Young people experience harm and risks outside of the family home which are not always effectively managed by traditional methods of safeguarding. Contextual safeguarding has been developed as an approach to broaden the context of child safeguarding to peer groups, schools and neighbourhoods where young people meet.
In this episode I speak to Professor Carlene Firmin who created the contextual safeguarding approach and we discuss one of her papers which evaluates its implementation in five local authority areas.
Professor Carlene Firmin is an applied social researcher at the University of Durham, concerned with safeguarding young people, social justice and inequality. She has particular expertise in social care responses to abuse between young people and harm in extra-familial spaces and places. More information about contextual safeguarding can be found on the project website.
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