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Book SynopsisThis book shares stories from child sexual exploitation, child criminal exploitation and peer violence about what has been learnt from the Contextual Safeguarding approach to understanding harm that happens to young people in their communities and what is required to respond.
Trade Review"Excellent book which articulates the challenges of risk management or rather, responding to the myriad risks encountered by children and young people. It is accessible to students and practitioners and I am sure both will benefit from this book." Ross Gibson, University of Strathclyde
Table of Contents1. 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
