About the Course
Contextual Safeguarding is a national framework to help better protect young people experiencing disadvantages and vulnerabilities within their schools, environments, and wider communities.
This is an approach to understanding and responding to young people’s experiences of significant harm beyond their families. Traditional approaches to protecting young people from harm have focused on the risk of violence and abuse from inside the home, usually from a parent/carer or other trusted adult.
As a result, they do not always address the time that young people spend outside the home and the influence of peers on young people’s development and safety.
In this course, learners will find out more about contextual safeguarding.
The learning objectives are as follows:
To understand the meaning of Contextual Safeguarding
To be aware of relevant research and case examples
To know why Contextual Safeguarding is imperative to practice in terms of policy, framework, and practice
To be aware of organisational challenges
To know about the risk factors facing young people (child sexual exploitation, child criminal exploitation, going missing, e-safety, gang/knife crime, and radicalisation)
To understand multi-agency benefits and support
This course is CPD accredited and is specifically for anyone working within the Leaving Care sector. It is also tailored to where you live in the UK, adhering to each country’s own individual regulators - namely: Ofsted, The Care Inspectorate (Wales), The Care Inspectorate (Scotland), and The Regulation and Quality Improvement Authority (Northern Ireland).
If you have 5 or more learners who require this training, you might like to consider our face-to-face option instead.
Because each of our courses is created by a specialist within this sector, we have the expertise to tailor any course to your specific needs. You can even arrange for your own documentation policies or procedures to be included in your Learning Management System.
To discuss these options before making your booking - or to ask any other questions - please just get in touch via our live chat.
This course is intended for personal development only and does not provide a regulated qualification.