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By 2015, Wiltshire County Council was already working “to some degree” with a contextual approach in response to child sexual exploitation, says the council’s service manager for young people, Andrea Brazier.
This included “some peer association mapping” by children and young people’s services, as well as looking at reducing risks linked to specific locations outside the family.
Case file audits and learning reviews were also under way “to identify where things could have been done differently to improve outcomes for young people”, she adds.
Then, after hearing about the Contextual Safeguarding work of academic Dr Carlene Firmin and her team at the University of Bedfordshire, Wiltshire’s interest was piqued in taking this further.
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