Welcome to Learn on the go, a Community Care Inform podcast where we discuss what the latest research, practice models and policy guidance mean for your practice.

This episode is on contextual safeguarding. We talk about what the approach entails, what it looks like in practice, and also discuss how work with young people been affected by the Covid-19 pandemic. Discussing these questions are Dr Carlene Firmin who developed the contextual safeguarding framework and leads the contextual safeguarding and peer-on-peer abuse research programmes at the University of Bedfordshire, and Samantha Roper, team manager for the multi-agency safeguarding hub (MASH) at Knowsley Council.

2:19 – What is contextual safeguarding?
4.42 – Implementing contextual safeguarding in a local authority
12.15 - Applying contextual safeguarding as an individual practitioner or team
24.20 – Legal questions around working with groups of peers, locations and child protection processes applied to extra-familial harm
27.57 - The impact of Covid-19 and lockdown on contextual safeguarding work

Community Care Inform subscribers can access additional resources and a written transcript of the podcast: https://www.ccinform.co.uk/learning-tools/contextual-safeguarding-podcast/

And if you want to hear more, in 2018 we published an episode of the podcast on county lines with a practitioner and parent: https://www.spreaker.com/episode/16966347

Read more about the Contextual Safeguarding Network and find the resources mentioned here: https://contextualsafeguarding.org.uk/