Active Projects
Children’s service systems change:
We undertake research into the nature of extra-familial harm, it’s impact on young people, families and communities, and the particular challenges such harm presents for those trying to keep young people safe
Scale Up Process
The Scale-Up project works with nine test sites in England and Wales to create Contextual Safeguarding systems in practice across Children’s Social Care and with multi-agency partners.
The Innovate Project ESRC
The Innovate Project is a collaborative examination of how, why and where innovations happens in social care to safeguard adolescents experiencing complex risks.
Examining extra-familial harm:
We undertake research into the nature of extra-familial harm, it’s impact on young people, families and communities, and the particularly challenges such harm presents for those trying to keep young people safe
Beyond Referrals 3
A research project into the rate, cost and experience of the relocation of adolescents exposed to or at risk of extra familial harm.
Contextual Safeguarding Across Borders (CASB)
Contextual Safeguarding Across Borders is a two-year project (2021-2023) exploring the application of Contextual Safeguarding in international contexts, specifically in situations of structural, historical, and contemporary racial inequalities
Contextual Safeguarding: Measuring Reach & Impact
In 2017, the Contextual Safeguarding programme (CSP) began partnering with local authorities to begin testing the framework in practice. The Reach and Impact (R&I) workstream is the first systematic attempt at evaluating the extent of the programme’s reach and impact.
Completed Projects
Examining extra-familial harm:
We undertake research into the nature of extra-familial harm, it’s impact on young people, families and communities, and the particularly challenges such harm presents for those trying to keep young people safe
Rescue and Response
An evaluation of the MOPAC funded ‘Rescue and Response’ project response to child criminal exploitation via County Lines in London
Beyond Referrals 2
Beyond Referrals 2 is a two year research project that considers opportunities and challenges for responding to harmful sexual behaviour (HSB) in schools.
Securing Safety
A research project into the rate, cost and experience of the relocation of adolescents exposed to or at risk of extra familial harm.
Developing contextual interventions:
We work with universal and specialist services to document and share their work to increase safety in young people’s peer and friendship groups, schools and the public places where they spend their time
The Peace Project
The PEACE project in the London Borough of Hounslow’s Youth Offending Services is using Contextual Safeguarding to develop interventions in response to exploitation.
The Oldham Youth Project
Pilot Project led by a voluntary sector organisation using the principles of contextual safeguarding to better respond to increasing levels of youth violence in the Oldham
Safer London Peers Project
A project with Safer London to explore opportunities for safeguarding interventions with young people’s peer networks.
Children’s service systems change:
We undertake research into the nature of extra-familial harm, it’s impact on young people, families and communities, and the particular challenges such harm presents for those trying to keep young people safe
Hackney Project
A project tracking the first full system application of the Contextual Safeguarding Framework in the London Borough of Hackney
