Understanding Contextual Safeguarding
An introduction to contextual safeguarding
Description
Contextual safeguarding is an approach to understanding, and responding to, young people’s experience of harm beyond their families. It recognises that the places and spaces that young people spend their time in, and the people they spend their time with outside of the family home may feature violence and abuse, such as exploitation. Parents and carers may have little or no influence over these contexts (the neighbourhood, location, school, within the peer group etc.