Contextual Safeguarding: Lessons Learned and Next Steps

Contextual Safeguarding: Lessons Learned and Next Steps

PowerPoint presentation by Carlene Firmin, Professor of Social Work, Durham University on Contextual Safeguarding, covering:

• What it is and what it isn't
• Key features of implementation
• Key steps for alignment with the Contextual Safeguarding values and framework

You can access her keynote speech from the Leicestershire webinar in 2022 via this link: https://youtu.be/RNlQ73KN8N4

Carlene Firmin is an applied social researcher, concerned with safeguarding young people, social justice and inequality. She has a particular expertise in social care responses to abuse between young people and harm in extra-familial spaces and places. In 2015 she founded the concept of 'Contextual Safeguarding' to enhance practice and policy in this area.