79: An introduction to contextual safeguarding

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Mar 9, 202625:13Government & Organizations

In 2015, Professor Carlene Firmin coined the term ‘contextual safeguarding’ to describe an approach to safeguarding young people that looks at additional ‘contexts’ for harm outside of the family home and beyond the cont...

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