... the SWIS trial. C. Verity Bennett can be contacted at: bennettcv@cardiff.ac.uk 29 04 2023 09 02 2024 26 07 2024 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2024 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Social work Mixed-methods Safeguarding Secondary school Q...

... be integrated into the support of young adults leaving the care system, especially when safeguarding concerns exist. Design/methodology/approach Three fortnightly, reflecting team-style, appreciative inquiry workshops explored the integration into practice of systemic concepts under the themes...

... relevant contextual and relational theories to understand experiences of CCE and the safeguarding responses undertaken to protect young people from harm. Design/methodology/approach Data were drawn from a survey (n = 118); interviews (n = 5) and focus groups (n = 15...

...Nathaniel Wilson; Clive Diaz; Juan Usubillaga Purpose This study aims to explore how local authority child and family practitioners understood and implement the contextual safeguarding approach focusing, in particular, on what practitioners felt supported and hindered implementation. Design...

...Jennifer Rafter Purpose Recently, there have been renewed calls to place social workers in schools. Although these are not unchartered waters, contextual understandings of safeguarding have reaffirmed the centrality of schools in the lives of young people and keeping them safe. Yet, schools can...

... that emerge through this contextual clinical practice. Prevention Safeguarding Harmful sexual behaviour Peer-to-peer abuse Youth sexual violence and abuse YSVA Young people are responsible for a considerable proportion of sexual abuse, including against other children and young people...

... (Bywaters et al., 2016), which may lead practitioners to feel as though are “policing the poor” when responding to neglect (Daniel, 2015). As set out in Working Together to Safeguard Children (2018) LSCBs will be replaced by the local safeguarding partners. The Children Act 2004...

... of mutually respectful and non-hierarchical relationships. The paper suggests that such methods enable the development of new insights into previously intractable challenges when working with adolescents needing a safeguarding response from professionals. Design/methodology/approach The paper reflects...

...Vicki Jackson-Hollis Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore some of the ethical and practical challenges of working with primary school-aged children to conduct qualitative service evaluations regarding sensitive safeguarding topics. Design/methodology/approach The paper centres...

... Safeguarding Children (age groups) United Kingdom Social care The Children Act, 2004 (DfES, 2004), enacted in the aftermath of the death of Victoria Climbié, created a new leadership role in English children's services (Frost and Parton, 2009). Having chaired the inquiry into Victoria's...

...Jane Tunstill; Jane Aldgate; June Thoburn This article describes the contrast between the clearly expressed and optimistic intentions of section 17 of the Children Act 1989, namely to produce a genuine service continuum that will promote and safeguard the welfare of children, and the reality...