Contextual Safeguarding is an approach developed in 2011 as a result of work carried out by DrCarlene Firmin, principal research fellow at the University of Bedfordshire (see expert view, below). Her ...

It was back in 2015 when I first proposed the idea of contextual safeguarding. It's an approach to child protection that was intended to assess, support, and where necessary intervene with, peer ...

Concerns about children in the care of social services, who go missing and are returned home by ‘friends’ late at night have existed for a long time. Picture: Liquidlogic However, recognition in the ...

“A stairwell, a park, a shopping centre, an alleyway, a takeaway, outside a hotel or hostel, or even a school playground or classroom: these are all places where young people are being abused or are ...

Carlene Firmin is an MBE holder and a pioneer of Contextual Safeguarding. Photograph: Durham University. A LEADING expert in the safeguarding of young people at risk of abuse has become one of the ...

Apply(This will open in a new window from which you will be automatically redirected to an external site after 5 seconds) For over a decade, the Contextual Safeguarding Programme at Durham University ...