Learn how the contextual safeguarding approach was developed, how it has been applied to date and how you might use it in your own practice.
How to approach the first meeting with a young person or adolescent, using intersectionality and systemic perspective to consider a young person's overlapping lived experience of race, gender, class, sexuality, abiltiy/disability and so on
Podcast discussion with Carlene Firmin, who developed the contextual safeguarding approach and a practitioner whose local authority is implementing it.
Written transcript of discussion with Carlene Firmin, who developed the contextual safeguarding approach and a practitioner whose local authority is implementing it.
Hub page gathers practice guidance, learning tools and legal information on different aspects of safeguarding and working with adolescents, and models and approaches social workers can use.
Transcript of an episode of the Community Care Inform podcast, Learn on the Go. The expert guests are Dave, a parent whose son Mark became involved with gangs, and Catherine, youth justice manager who worked with Dave and Mark and has expertise in gangs and county lines.
The parent of a son who was involved with gangs and a youth justice manager discuss how young people get involved with gangs, signs they are being exploited and what good social work with young people and parents looks like.