Contextual Safeguarding - Holly Lodge High School Contextual safeguarding recognises that as young people grow and develop, they are influenced by a whole range of environments and people outside of their family. Contextual safeguarding looks at how…

Have you had a look at our new #ContextualSafeguarding webpage? holly-lodge.org/contextual-s... #Safeguarding

From ‘risky choices’ to ‘risky contexts’? The state of play of UK child welfare responses to adolescent ‘extra-familial harm’. National and international implications Across the globe young people are significantly harmed in relationships and spaces beyond their families and family homes. The UK appears distinct in integ

New paper considering the state of play of UK child welfare responses to extra-familial harm for the British Journal of Social Work with Rachael Owens, Jenny Lloyd and @carlenefirmin.bsky.social

#extrafamilialharm #contextualsafeguarding #childrenssocialcare

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Join Just for Kids Law legal director, co-founder and co-lead Aika Stephenson at the first ever International Contextual Safeguarding Conference this September.

#ContextualSafeguarding #GlobalCSConf2025 #ChildProtection #AdolescentSafety #AoCPP #DurhamUniversity #SafeguardingProfessionals

Join Just for Kids Law legal director, co-founder and co-lead Aika Stephenson at the first ever International Contextual Safeguarding Conference this September.

#ContextualSafeguarding #GlobalCSConf2025 #ChildProtection #AdolescentSafety #AoCPP #DurhamUniversity #SafeguardingProfessionals

Join Just for Kids Law legal director, co-founder and co-lead Aika Stephenson at the first ever International Contextual Safeguarding Conference this September.

#ContextualSafeguarding #GlobalCSConf2025 #ChildProtection #AdolescentSafety #AoCPP #DurhamUniversity #SafeguardingProfessionals

Our new paper is out led by @lauriewroe.bsky.social & with Delphine Peace on learning from #Contextualsafeguarding Across Borders with refugee young people in Germany. Interesting to be bilingual researcher on the project - reminder of how language/trajectories shape contexts & concepts.

‘Contextual safeguarding across borders’: learning about the ‘contextual safeguarding’ framework and youth ‘extra-familial’ harm in Germany We share learning from a collaborative project involving researchers at Durham university in England and an International Non-Government Organisation (INGO) supporting refugee girls in Germany. The...

New article for European Journal of Social Work with co-authors @nhuegler.bsky.social & Delphine Peace!

Learning from the Contextual Safeguarding Across Borders research project with #refugee young people in Germany, part of the #contextualsafeguarding programme

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Join Rebecca Brown, Sabrina Hewitt, Clair Graham and Luna Dolezal as they delve into the complexities of #ContextualSafeguarding, providing essential knowledge, practical advice, and best practice guidance for professionals working with vulnerable children.

Book your place here 👉 buff.ly/HeS3moj

Online Safeguarding Conference - Guest Speaker Spotlight

#SafeguardingConference - Guest Speaker Spotlight 🔊

Clair Graham will talk about EMPOWER U which is the contextual Safeguarding Hub in Birmingham and what they do in response to #ContextualSafeguarding 

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Online Safeguarding Conference - Guest Speaker Spotlight

Online #SafeguardingConference 🔊

Our Headline Speaker, Dr Rebecca Brown, will deliver 'Contextual Safeguarding' - In this session Rebecca will introduce #ContextualSafeguarding, charting the concept’s development and trajectory 👉 https://buff.ly/3PEE6BC

We are starting back our VR Headset sessions this week. Looking forward to a number of days at Spen Valley High in Kirklees. Early intervention workshops with VR headsets, so engaging and immersive for students.
#contextualsafeguarding #CCE
#seriousviolence

Kirklees school leaders!!! Opportunity for DSL staff development around serious violence. For more info… get in touch
#contextualsafeguarding #CCE

Online Safeguarding Conference

Are you a teacher, DSL or school leader looking to upskill your #ContextualSafeguarding knowledge? Join Guest Speakers Rebecca Brown, Sabrina Hewitt, Clair Graham and Luna Dolezal at our Unmissable Online Safeguarding Conference 👉 https://buff.ly/3ApRVjs

Finally got around to reading this Child of the North report and welcome multiple recommendations around both a #ContextualSafeguarding approach in general & specifically Risk Outside of the Home (ROTH) child protection processes

More calls to meeting need as paramount for providing protection

328 #spreadsheets later and operation sneak #deprivation awareness into holistic #contextualsafeguarding practise is go!

Sometimes it’s better to ask for forgiveness than permission.

#safeguarding #childprotection #CSA #neglect

By employing a #contextualsafeguarding approach we should be navigating the potential for creating a “victim vacuum” that often occurs when we only conducted an isolated traditional assessment. #childprotection #safeguarding