With Colin Michel, Rachel Ringham and our special guest facilitator, Luke Billingham
How do we create conditions in our youth safeguarding systems to nurture awareness, agency and wellbeing?
This full-day, in-person workshop will give you the space, tools, and peer exchange to explore exactly that.
💬 What past participants say:
“This has been my absolute favourite session I've been to in a very long time.
Massive thanks to the organisers, and to Colin and Luke. I hope there is more on this because there are many more conversations and work to be done on this! I would love to collaborate with people here and have a network of us on this issue.”
Previous CCCs webinar attendee
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What we mean by youth safeguarding systems
We see these systems as purposeful collaborations across practice, management, leadership, and policy — in partnership with young people, families, and communities.
Their uniting aim:
Creating safety with young people facing harms from racism, poverty, violence, and exploitation — and nurturing their awareness, agency, and wellbeing.
We recognise that these harms are often structural and systemic, and that services themselves can inadvertently reproduce inequalities or cause harm if they don’t take a relational, reflective approach.
This view has four key implications:
Keep young people’s awareness, agency, and wellbeing at the centre — without shifting responsibility onto them.
Recognise everyday, non-professional relationships as vital for support and resilience.
Strengthen collaboration across sectors — no one agency can tackle structural harms alone.
Value the whole system as interconnected and evolving, requiring curiosity, reflection, and flexibility, not just procedures.
Aims of the workshop
Together we will explore:
Putting young people at the centre – addressing structural harms without overburdening them.
Valuing everyday relationships – recognising the vital role of networks of support.
Working beyond silos – strengthening collaboration across sectors to challenge structural inequities.
Seeing the whole system – staying curious, adaptive, and mindful of how policies and practice can reinforce harm.
Your take-home toolkit
By the end of the day, you will:
Map your safeguarding system and identify where relational practice can mitigate structural harms.
Understand the core capabilities of relational practice and their benefits for young people facing systemic inequalities.
Gain practical tools to create safer, more equitable conditions in your role and organisation.
Develop a personal action plan to advocate for, implement, and embed relational practice across your team and system.