By Roni Eyal-Lubling and Kristine Langhoff, The University of Sussex
The Innovate Project is a four-year pan-UK study funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) from 2019-23. Its aim was to explore how children's social care and third sector organisations were innovating to address the extra-familial risks and/or harms that young people may encounter and experience beyond the family home, including online. Extra-familial risks and/or harms are associated with exploitation, abuse or criminality, and raise safeguarding concerns, for example sexual and criminal exploitation, peer-on-peer abuse, gang affiliation and violence.
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