ABSTRACT
This penultimate chapter introduces some of the legal and ethical questions that have emerged during testing, and the extent to which each of these is ongoing rather than resolved. The author focuses on three: whether the Contextual Safeguarding approach is more legally aligned to a community safety rather than child protection agenda; the ethics of engaging communities and peers in safeguarding practices and systems; and the difficulties of knowing when to intervene in contexts that are vulnerable but yet to experience significant harm. While these queries are being managed on a case-by-case basis in local areas, they are yet to be attended to at a policy level. Further testing over the coming two years may surface thematic blockages across locations that could then form the basis of national or international policy questions.
