This resource is from the Scale-Up toolkit and should be used in conjunction with the other resources. You can access the Scale-Up toolkit here.
To plan effectively for young people at risk of extra-familial harm, it is critical that contextual factors impacting their safety are assessed and their influence weighted. This means that if a child feels safe at home but unsafe on their way to school, the assessment and plan might focus on developing a safety plan around getting them to school safely rather than the home environment.
In this section of the toolkit, you can access resources to help consider extra-familial factors and contexts during assessments, example assessments, and videos and webinars. They include a range of practice tools to use with individual young people, like safety mapping and the 'All around me' tool.
How can we assess risk of extra-familial harm that young people are facing? What are some of the key approaches to assessment of individual risk? These resources provide guidance to those looking to embed assessing extra-familial risk of individual young people into their systems
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Guidance: Assessment and intervention planningThis document supports practitioners to undertake assessments which are holistic in nature – taking into account both the context of children’s experiences within their family home and in other social spaces -
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Practice example: Hackney's child and family assessment templateHackney's revised child and family assessment form showing text that was added in relation to extra-familial considerations -
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Video: Considering EFH in child and family assessmentsIn this video, we explore some of the key considerations for understanding and assessing how extra-familial harm might be experienced by individual young people -
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Video: What makes a good EFH assessment?This video provides insight from Hackney's safeguarding team on how to incorporate extra-familial harm into assessment processes -
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Video: Assessment and intervention planningThis video provides guidance on assessment and intervention planning for individual young people at risk of harm outside the home
Practice tools for conducting individual assessments with young people at risk of harm outside the home
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Tool: Safety mapping toolSafety mapping exercises to help practitioners to identify areas of risk and safety. -
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Tool: 'All Around Me'This tool is designed to help practitioners gather information from a young person to build a picture/understanding of the people and places that matter most to that young person in each of the identified contexts. -
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Tool: 'What's happening?'This tool helps practitioners gather information about a parent or carer’s understanding of the strengths and vulnerabilities of a young person across each of the identified contexts. -
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Guidance: Case consultationA guidance document/toolkit for professionals carrying out a Contextual Safeguarding Case Consultation
