ABSTRACT

The author starts this part of the book by detailing the project upon which the Contextual Safeguarding Framework was first built. In this chapter she outlines the methods used in local areas that were seeking to contextualise their responses to peer-abuse; and how the research team captured learning from their efforts. Firmin also documents the thematic opportunities and challenges that emerged over this three-year period, and how these cumulatively evidenced the need for a whole-systems attempt at contextual practice.