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.
Strengths-based practice and extra-familial risks and harms.
Is strengths-based practice a friend or foe in youth safeguarding?