Contextual Safeguarding in new government guidance for schools

Last week the Department of Education published a revised version of Keeping Children Safe in Education, which is open for consultation until 22 February 2018. Alongside this, they also published a new guidance document:  ‘Sexual violence and sexual harassment between

Contextual Safeguarding in Working Together

Contextual safeguarding has been referenced in the revised statutory guidance ‘Working Together to Safeguard Children’. Dr Jenny Lloyd welcomes this addition, and explores how the guidance can be further strengthened. I was delighted to see this week that the revised

Panorama – When kids abuse kids

In this blog Jenny Lloyd reflects on the recent BBC Panorama episode on peer-on-peer abuse. Jenny highlights the links between what is portrayed in the programme and key findings from The International Centre’s contextual safeguarding research, outlining the need for a response that

Launch of the Contextual Safeguarding Network

This week Danielle Fritz writes about the launch of the Contextual Safeguarding Network for practitioners. We are very excited to announce the official launch of the IC’s Contextual Safeguarding Network for practitioners. Through the Network, we will work closely with