Featured news and resources
The Launch Of The GCCS!
On September 17th we launched the Durham University Global Centre for Contextual Safeguarding. We marked the occasion with a two-day event, run in partnership with the Association of Child Protection Professionals.
Watch our launch video, left, produced by Raymond Mfon.
The event brought together young people and parents, practitioners, academics, statutory, voluntary and private organisations, funders and businesses, nationally and globally, to celebrate this new chapter for Contextual Safeguarding and to look to an innovative future ahead.
Explore our new Extra-Familial Harm Toolkit
Find out everything you need to know regarding extra-familial harm with this comprehensive new toolkit developed as part of the Risk Outside of the Home (ROTH) National Support Programme.
Planning for Safety: Risk Outside of the Home (ROTH) National Support Programme
Phase 4 of Planning for Safety will deliver a National Support Programme to develop and embed ROTH pathways, which includes practice resources, online learning events and in-person regional events.
Learning report and resources from Phase 3 of the ROTH pilots
Resources include ROTH pathways assessment template and exemplars and also conference planning tools.
Latest blogs and podcasts
Contextual Safeguarding On A Global Platform
Professor Carlene Firmin (pictured), Director of the Global Centre for Contextual Safeguarding (GCCS), welcomes in an exciting new era and sets out the plans and expectations she and the GCCS team have for the Centre as it grows and evolves.
Beyond Labels: Using Art To Help Young People Open Up
In this blog post, Janine Ewen describes a creative research project where street art was used to elicit conversations with young people about their experiences of safety and harm in their local community.
Imposters Assembled
This blog is by members of the Sustaining Social Work research project about their reflections of coming together as practitioner co-researchers, exploring the experience of what it feels like to ‘do’ contextual safeguarding.
