Contextual Safeguarding - an introduction
Young people form different relationships in the home, with their peers, in their neighbourhoods, on social media and in school. Understanding how young people need to navigate these groups and places and the ‘context’ in which young people encounter harm is central to your ability to provide effective safeguarding.
This course will provide an introduction to contextual safeguarding to help you to better understand how different people, places and spaces impact on young people’s safety. The sessions cover:
- The research underpinning contextual safeguarding
- The ideas of ‘prevent, disrupt, navigate’
- Where and when young people face the risk of harm and exploitation
- The five inter-related contextual safeguarding themes
- The importance of the weighting and interplay of the contextual safeguarding themes
- Contextual ecomap – with 6 elements
- The importance of mapping hotspots (schools, neighbourhoods etc.)
- Testing out a range of tools to help with contextual safeguarding mapping
- Using evidence to strengthen contextual safeguarding assessments
- All courses are offered on a Face to Face or Virtual basis.
- Bespoke & Open Training Courses Available.
Case Studies
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Evaluation - Leeds Intensive Positive Behaviour Support Service
We were commissioned by Leeds City Council to conduct an evaluation of the Intensive Positive Behaviour Support project.Read More -
Stoke on Trent Better Together Project Evaluation
We were commissioned to provide an 18-month evaluation of the Better Together [BT] Project to understand whether it was an effective approach for equipping schools (and potentially other settings) to support the early help system and to understand likelihood of impact on family stability and educational outcomes.Read More -
Trauma Informed Practice training - Developing Together Social Work Teaching Partnership
We are currently providing a large training programme and associated support to the Developing Together Social Work Teaching PartnershipRead More -
Shropshire - Early Help training
Read MoreWe are delighted to continue our long relationship with Shropshire in supporting their workforce.
Cancellation Policy
We are very flexible and will do our utmost to rearrange training should the need arise, but our trainers obviously commit themselves to the training days agreed and so if you need to cancel at short notice we will need to charge a cancellation fee to cover their time.
Please see our cancellation terms / fees.