Over the next four years, the University of Bedfordshire will support three local authorities to implement contextual safeguarding approaches thanks to funding from the Big Lottery Fund.
The scale up project will see the university support the three councils to create contextual safeguarding systems that fit their local circumstances, building on work that has already taken place in other areas to have used elements of the approach.
Contextual safeguarding offers a different way of thinking about child protection and how best to tackle the underlying causes of vulnerability in adolescents. Here is a guide to help understand it.
What are the principles?
The theory of contextual safeguarding was developed in 2015 by Carlene Firmin, principal research fellow at the University of Bedfordshire, to provide child protection practitioners with interventions, structures and frameworks that better meet the needs of vulnerable young people than the standard, more family-oriented child protection system.
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