Creating safety with young people questioning, leaving, or changing faith.
A project about creating safety with young people who are questioning, leaving or changing faith.
This work brings together practitioners, researchers, and young people, We are working with national, regional and local partners to develop practice principles and support with young people.
Strengthening your response to harm outside the home: a collaborative, hands-on approach
Safeguarding beyond the family home has to be built in collaboration. We work alongside partnerships to develop responses to harm outside the home that reflect local relationships and realities, with hand-on approach to creating safety with children and young people.
Casework audit for extra-familial harm: are we auditing what matters?
Casework audit can drift into reassurance under pressure, especially in extra-familial harm and transitional ages. This piece argues for audit that travels across partners and age boundaries, tests credible evidence of impact, and asks whether practice is reducing harm, creating safety and nurturing agency and welfare, not just producing compliant records.
Aftercare: What happens to us once the review is done?
Aftercare matters in Child Safeguarding Practice Reviews. This piece explores how CSPRs can cause anxiety and defensiveness across safeguarding partnerships, and why planned aftercare creates the conditions for learning to travel, relationships to repair, and change to settle into everyday practice.
Creating conducive conditions for resonance and collaboration.
Rethinking relational practice in youth safeguarding systems
Taking inspiration from Hartmut Rosa’s concept of resonance, we explore how professionals can foster connections, curiosity, and collaboration to nurture young people’s wellbeing.
An unequal distribution of lovability.
Are some children, by virtue of their age and ethnicity, deemed less in need of our protection, and therefore, less lovable, rendering their lives as less significant losses?
Strengths-based practice and extra-familial risks and harms.
Is strengths-based practice a friend or foe in youth safeguarding?