In order to engage with the contextual dynamics identified in Firmin’s review, professionals required a policy and practice framework that recognised:
This led to the publication in 2016 of the Contextual Safeguarding Framework which sets out the principles underpinning the approach, and which in recent years have been tested via an online practice framework and in local authority test sites.
The framework comprises four domains which set out what safeguarding and child protection systems need to do to be contextual in their approach (see graphic).
When applying these four framework domains it is possible for services to recognise the interplay between contexts; and through context weighting identify the principle contextual factors that require attention and/or intervention.
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