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Turning a Neighbourhood Assessment into a Plan

This section supports practitioners to set safety goals to develop a response plan for a neighbourhood context.

If you've followed the prompts in the neighbourhood-assessment form, you should now have a clear idea of the main issues causing harm to young people in this context. The temptation at this point is to jump straight into planning a response – but there is another crucial stage before this, which is setting goals. Safety goals for a context are important because they will help you stay focused on what you are trying to achieve and support you to know if you’ve achieved it.

Once you have your completed assessment form, the next step is to turn to the Contextual Outcomes Framework. This framework guides you through the next stages:

1. Set a small number of goals for the context

2. Plan responses that will meet those goals and

3. Decide how you’ll measure what you’ve done

In the Related Resources (below) is a blank Contextual Outcomes Framework where you can see the goal statements to choose from. These were developed by converting the indicators on the context assessment triangle into positive statements for what we would like to see in order for young people to be safe in a context.

Next to the blank Contextual Outcomes Framework there is an exemplar completed version to show you how the assessment could be used to identify goals and plan a response.

At this point you could convene a context conference. A context conference is a meeting with key partners brought together to support the development of safety goals and a plan of action for a context. We have developed two types of context conferences – one is chaired by children’s social care and mirrors a traditional child-protection conference, and the other is led by a family group conference coordinator. Resources to support you in running both types of conferences are also in the carousel below.

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