Contextual Safeguarding is an approach to understanding, and responding to, young people's experiences of significant harm beyond their families. It recognises that the different relationships young people form in their neighbourhoods, schools and online can feature violence and abuse that parents and carers have little influence over, and young people's experiences of extra-familial abuse can undermine parent-child relationships.
Methodology
Through site work in six locations, this project explored the extent to which local responses to "peer-on-peer" abuse were contextual and holistic. In each site, a programme of work was undertaken with local multi-agency partnerships to audit their responses to peer-on-peer abuse. This resulted in development of action plans with activities designed to enhance or embed existing contextual practice.
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