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Assessments focused on individual behaviours rather than addressing contexts. Picture: Hanna/Adobe Stock

Research 5 January 2021

Contextual Risk, Individualised Responses: An Assessment of Safeguarding Responses to Nine Cases of Peer-on-Peer Abuse

Studies show that practitioners must examine the relationship between the school context and the harm that occurs or is facilitated there. Picture: benschonewille/Adobe Stock

Research 5 January 2021

Keeping Children Safe? Advancing Social Care Assessments to Address Harmful Sexual Behaviour in Schools

Relocation may be an opportunity to secure a young person’s physical safety but it can pose a risk to their relational and psychological safety. Picture: Bublikhaus/Adobe Stock

Research 5 January 2021

Relocation, Relocation, Relocation: Home and School-Moves for Children Affected by Extra-Familial Risks During Adolescence

The paper asks whether it is social workers’ role to prevent and intervene in cases of abuse of children – or to work with families. Picture: Adobe Stock, posed by model

Research 5 January 2021

No Further Action: Contextualising Social Care Decisions for Children Victimised in Extra-Familial Settings

Early intervention work helps young people at risk to connect with their families. Picture: Motortion/Adobe Stock

Features 5 January 2021

Contextual Safeguarding helps Wiltshire to hone social work practice

Contextual Safeguarding considers extra-familial relationships and settings when assessing risk. Picture: ijeab/Adobe Stock

Features 5 January 2021

Contextual Safeguarding: Special Report

Parents often praised schools’ flexible approaches to learning across a challenging year. Picture: Halfpoint/Adobe Stock

Analysis 5 January 2021

Lessons for successful home schooling of children with SEND

Andrew Rome: “It is perhaps not surprising to find that the commissioning sector has struggled to move away from the spot purchasing of placements model”

Features 1 December 2020

Commissioning: Implications of divergence

Phase one of the research found that digital communication can be used to complement face-to-face services for children and families. Picture: Adobe Stock

Analysis 24 November 2020

Early child development review: emerging issues and solutions

Councils and agencies must understand what motivates people to become foster carers. Picture: Adobe Stock

Analysis 24 November 2020

Tackling foster carer decline

There have always been more boys than girls who are first-time entrants to the criminal justice system. Picture: motortion/Adobe Stock

Features 24 November 2020

Youth Justice: Special Report

Children in care participate in the House Project in groups, helping to support each other while gaining the skills they will need to successfully move to independent living

Features 24 November 2020

Making a house into a home

The criminal justice system is disproportionately populated by people from ethnic minority backgrounds. Picture: Seventyfour/Adobe Stock

Other 24 November 2020

Youth Justice: Policy context

Organisations must have digital engagement strategies prepared for lockdowns. Picture: Fabio rh2010/Adobe Stock

Research 24 November 2020

Living Through a Lockdown: Reflections and Recommendations from Young People at Risk of Serious Violence

Other 24 November 2020

Tackling disproportionality: Three examples of YOT good practice