Contextual Safeguarding

1. Introduction: Contextual Safeguarding but not as you know it - Carlene Firmin and Jenny Lloyd





Part 1. Domain 1: The target of the system


2. From peers and parks to patriarchy and poverty: inequalities in young people's experiences of extra-familial harm and the child protection system - Lauren Wroe, Jenny Lloyd and Molly Manister


3. Identifying and responding to structural and system drivers of extra-familial harm using a Contextual Safeguarding approach - Molly Manister, Lauren Wroe and Carly Adams Elias


4. Value-informed approaches to peer mapping and assessment: learning from test sites - Carly Adams Elias, Lisa Marie Thornhill and Hannah Millar





Part 2. Domain 2: The legislative basis of the system


5. Reimagining Community Safety as community safeguarding in response to extra-familial harm - Joanne Walker and Carlene Firmin


6. Contextual Safeguarding beyond the UK - Delphine Peace


7. Decolonising practice: 'doing' Contextual Safeguarding with an ethics of care - Vanessa Bradbury-Leather and Sue Rayment-McHugh





Part 3. Domain 3: The partnerships that characterise the system


8. "If you want to help us, you need to hear us" - Hannah Millar, Joanne Walker and Elsie Whittington


9. Parents as partners: destigmatising the role of parents of children affected by extra familial harm - Lisa Marie Thornhill


10. What can we learn from multi-agency meetings to address extra-familial harm to young people? - Lisa Bostock





Part 4. Domain 4: The outcomes the system produces and measures


11. Developing outcomes measurements in Contextual Safeguarding: explorations of theory and practice - Jenny Lloyd and Rachael Owens


12. Counting children and chip shops: dilemmas and challenges in evaluating the impact of Contextual Safeguarding - Michelle Lefevre, Paula Skidmore and Carlene Firmin


13. Gather round: stories that expand the possibilities of Contextual Safeguarding practice - Rachael Owens





14. Conclusion: Creating societies where children can know love - Jenny Lloyd and Carlene Firmin