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Foreword

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Chapters in this book

  1. Front Matter i
  2. Contents v
  3. List of figures and tables vii
  4. List of abbreviations viii
  5. Notes on contributors ix
  6. Acknowledgements xiii
  7. Foreword xiv
  8. Introduction: Contextual Safeguarding but not as you know it 1
  9. Domain 1: The target of the system
  10. From peers and parks to patriarchy and poverty: inequalities in young people’s experiences of extra-familial harm and the child protection system 17
  11. Identifying and responding to structural and system drivers of extra-familial harm using a Contextual Safeguarding approach 30
  12. Value-informed approaches to peer mapping and assessment: learning from test sites 44
  13. Domain 2: The legislative basis of the system
  14. Reimagining Community Safety as community safeguarding in response to extra-familial harm 61
  15. Contextual Safeguarding beyond the UK 77
  16. Decolonising practice: ‘doing’ Contextual Safeguarding with an ethics of care 89
  17. Domain 3: The partnerships that characterise the system
  18. “If you want to help us, you need to hear us” 105
  19. Parents as partners: destigmatising the role of parents of children affected by extra-familial harm 121
  20. What can we learn from multi-agency meetings to address extra-familial harm to young people? 132
  21. Domain 4: The outcomes the system produces and measures
  22. Developing outcomes measurements in Contextual Safeguarding: explorations of theory and practice 147
  23. Counting children and chip shops: dilemmas and challenges in evaluating the impact of Contextual Safeguarding 160
  24. Gather round: stories that expand the possibilities of Contextual Safeguarding practice 175
  25. Conclusion: Creating societies where children can know love 188
  26. References 196
  27. Index 216
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