Harm Outside The Home Safeguarding: In Practice
Harm outside the home doesn't respect the boundaries of traditional safeguarding. Schools, peer groups, neighbourhoods, community spaces, and online platforms all hold power: to protect, to harm, to connect, or to influence. Yet most assessment and planning still centers the individual and the family, leaving the contexts where harm actually occurs untouched.
This training builds the ability to recognise and respond to the harms children and young people experience in their wider lives and relationships, enabling long-term safety. We look beyond the home, toward the social, structural, and environmental factors that shape safety, and toward practice that intervenes in contexts, not just cases.
Rooted in real-world complexity, safeguarding against extra-familial harm demands a wider lens for understanding risk, resilience, and responsibility in the everyday spaces where young people live their lives.
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Describe the core principles of safeguarding against extra-familial harm and how this approach expands traditional, family-focused safeguarding.
Identify how extra-familial contexts (such as peer networks, schools, community spaces, and digital environments) interact with systemic inequalities, including racism, poverty, and marginalisation to influence risk and resilience in young people's lives.
Explore practical, collaborative approaches to intervene in extra-familial contexts and co-create safer spaces with young people and communities.
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This training is suitable for any teams working with children, such as Children's Services, Alternate Provision Staff, Youth Service, and third sector support services.
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This training can be delivered either face to face or online.
We also offer a two day, in-depth version of this training for managers and heads of service. Designed to increase and share knowledge of systems and practice. Delegates will leave with an action plan designed to implement and embed Contextual Safeguarding in their settings.