The PEACE project aims to protect young people at risk of extra-familial harm, with a particular focus on criminal and sexual exploitation. The project is located within the London Borough of Hounslow’s Youth Offending Services.
The research asked:
- How can Contextual Safeguarding theory and practice be used and developed within PEACE?
- How can this learning be extended across Hounslow Children’s and Families’ Services?
The resources below were co-developed by the Contextual Safeguarding team and practitioners from the PEACE project team to share learning from the project.
Resources
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Including Contextual Information within a Referral FormTo take a Contextual Safeguarding approach, the team re-designed the referral form to increase, and make explicit, the consideration of extra-familial contexts. -
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Professional and peer support for families responding to child exploitationSarah Houseman, Family and Systemic Psychotherapist in the PEACE team, presents about the parents and carers' groups offered by the project to support family members of young people who are at risk of, or currently experiencing, exploitation. We hope you find this useful! Please let us know if you have questions or have been involved in similar work. -
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Peer group referral formThis peer group referral form developed as part of the PEACE project with reflections from Farzana Wangde, a practitioner in the PEACE team. -
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Completing surveys with residents as part of a neighbourhood assessmentAs part of this neighbourhood assessment, the team surveyed residents within the neighbourhood. To do this the team adapted a survey template developed by the Hackney Contextual Safeguarding Project and gave thought to how best to administer this survey. Nicola Toh, a practitioner from the project, reflects below on the steps the team took to prepare, complete and analyse the survey. -
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Designing and delivering the PEACE projectThe PEACE project logic model seeks to capture the projects activities and its desired outcomes, both in the shorter and longer term, as well as the influences behind the project
