ABSTRACT
The Contextual Safeguarding Framework is presented for the first time in chapter 6 – as the consequence of the work detailed in chapter 5. The Contextual Safeguarding Framework, which was an idea rather than a practical reality in 2016, called for child protection systems to be capable of realising the ‘four domains’ into which it was divided – if they were to sufficiently respond to extra-familial harm. In this chapter, the author explains each of those domains and the intentions behind them. Domain 1: target the social conditions (context) of abuse; Domain 2: achieve this through lens of child protection; Domain 3: leverage the partnerships required to reach into, and change extra-familial contexts; and Domain 4: measure change contextually. At this stage, the Contextual Safeguarding Framework was an ambition and work was required to turn it into a practical reality.
