Research Projects

Active Projects
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The Innovate Project ESRCThe Innovate Project is a collaborative examination of how, why and where innovations happens in social care to safeguard adolescents experiencing complex risks.
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The Next ChapterThe Next Chapter (TNC) grapples with key questions that emerged from the three year testing of Contextual Safeguarding during the Scale-Up project and is made up of four workstreams to explore
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Contextual Safeguarding Across Borders (CASB)Contextual Safeguarding Across Borders is a two-year project (2021-2023) exploring the application of Contextual Safeguarding in international contexts, specifically in situations of structural, historical, and contemporary racial inequalities
Recently Completed Projects
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Scale Up ProcessThe Scale-Up project works with nine test sites in England and Wales to create Contextual Safeguarding systems in practice across Children’s Social Care and with multi-agency partners.
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Beyond Referrals 3A research project into the rate, cost and experience of the relocation of adolescents exposed to or at risk of extra familial harm.
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Contextual Safeguarding: Measuring Reach & ImpactIn 2017, the Contextual Safeguarding programme (CSP) began partnering with local authorities to begin testing the framework in practice. The Reach and Impact (R&I) workstream is the first systematic attempt at evaluating the extent of the programme’s reach and impact.
Older Projects
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Rescue and Response
An evaluation of the MOPAC funded ‘Rescue and Response’ project response to child criminal exploitation via County Lines in London -
Beyond Referrals 2
Beyond Referrals 2 is a two year research project that considers opportunities and challenges for responding to harmful sexual behaviour (HSB) in schools. -
Securing Safety
A research project into the rate, cost and experience of the relocation of adolescents exposed to or at risk of extra familial harm. -
The Peace Project
The PEACE project in the London Borough of Hounslow’s Youth Offending Services is using Contextual Safeguarding to develop interventions in response to exploitation. -
The Oldham Youth Project
Pilot Project led by a voluntary sector organisation using the principles of contextual safeguarding to better respond to increasing levels of youth violence in the Oldham -
Safer London Peers Project
A project with Safer London to explore opportunities for safeguarding interventions with young people’s peer networks. -
Hackney Project
A project tracking the first full system application of the Contextual Safeguarding Framework in the London Borough of Hackney