Concerns about children in the care of social services, who go missing and are returned home by ‘friends’ late at night have existed for a long time. Picture: Liquidlogic However, recognition in the ...

Contextual Safeguarding is an approach developed in 2011 as a result of work carried out by DrCarlene Firmin, principal research fellow at the University of Bedfordshire (see expert view, below). Her ...

It was back in 2015 when I first proposed the idea of contextual safeguarding. It's an approach to child protection that was intended to assess, support, and where necessary intervene with, peer ...

Carlene Firmin is an MBE holder and a pioneer of Contextual Safeguarding. Photograph: Durham University. A LEADING expert in the safeguarding of young people at risk of abuse has become one of the ...

Contextual safeguarding recognises that aspects of a person’s life beyond their family can impact on their involvement in organised crime. It examines these social and environmental risks, as well as ...

Research from youth charity Power the Fight and the Contextual Safeguarding Programme at Durham University urges cross-government action to help safeguard vulnerable youth The report contains key ...

Surrey’s social workers talk about the changes and good practices that are now improving their day-to-day working lives Surrey’s improvement journey so far has been based on a vision set out by the ...

Apply(This will open in a new window from which you will be automatically redirected to an external site after 5 seconds) For over a decade, the Contextual Safeguarding Programme at Durham University ...

Railway Children is beginning the next phase of its Safeguarding Action Group, a three-year project designed to strengthen contextual safeguarding in and around transport hubs and along key routes in ...