Contextual Safeguarding is an approach developed in 2011 as a result of work carried out by DrCarlene Firmin, principal research fellow at the University of Bedfordshire (see expert view, below). Her ...

Concerns about children in the care of social services, who go missing and are returned home by ‘friends’ late at night have existed for a long time. Picture: Liquidlogic However, recognition in the ...

Apply(This will open in a new window from which you will be automatically redirected to an external site after 5 seconds) For over a decade, the Contextual Safeguarding Programme at Durham University ...

Carlene Firmin is an MBE holder and a pioneer of Contextual Safeguarding. Photograph: Durham University. A LEADING expert in the safeguarding of young people at risk of abuse has become one of the ...

Research from youth charity Power the Fight and the Contextual Safeguarding Programme at Durham University urges cross-government action to help safeguard vulnerable youth The report contains key ...

Contextual safeguarding recognises that aspects of a person’s life beyond their family can impact on their involvement in organised crime. It examines these social and environmental risks, as well as ...

This module is aimed at experienced practitioners and will provide opportunities to examine the framework of contextual safeguarding and develop your own practice in safeguarding children. We will ...

Research led by former children's commissioner calls for end to unregulated provision for under-18s and new models of care for adolescents, and says councils must implement contextual safeguarding ...

In 2011 at the U.S. bishops' Office of Child and Youth Protection, photos and prayers for the victims of clergy sexual abuse. Credit: CNS/Nancy Wiechec Effective protection of minors and adults in the ...