The project has been funded by the Economic and Social Research Council and over the next four years will investigate how council's social care systems can improve their safeguarding work with vulnerable children.
Risks being looked at in the project include how drugs gangs are exploiting young people through county lines networks, which use vulnerable children to distribute drugs from cities to rural and market town areas.
Criminal exploitation of children, including CSE and wider gang association are also covered.
Abuse between children, known as peer-on-peer abuse, is another safeguarding issue being explored.
The aim is to help councils and others involved in supporting vulnerable children to develop innovative ways to ensure young people are protected.
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