Dr Carlene Firmin - Contextual Safeguarding Webinar
Contextual Safeguarding is an approach to understanding, and responding to, young people’s experiences of significant harm beyond their families. It recognises that the different relationships that young people form in their neighbourhoods, schools and online can feature violence and abuse. Parents and carers have little influence over these contexts, and young people’s experiences of extra-familial abuse can undermine parent-child relationships.
Therefore, children’s social care practitioners, child protection systems and wider safeguarding partnerships need to engage with individuals and sectors who do have influence over/within extra-familial contexts, and recognise that assessment of, and intervention with, these spaces are a critical part of safeguarding practices. Contextual Safeguarding, therefore, expands the objectives of child protection systems in recognition that young people are vulnerable to abuse beyond their front doors.
Dr Carlene Firmin, MBE Principal Research Fellow, Safer Young Lives Research Centre
'I am a social researcher, concerned with safeguarding young people, social justice and inequality, with a particular expertise in the field of social care responses to violence and abuse that occurs between young people or in extra-familial spaces and places.'
Dr Carlene Firmin will be presenting an introduction to Contextual Safeguarding based on key learning from the programme.
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