The 'Extra-Familial' Harm toolkit
This toolkit has been developed as part of the Risk Outside the Home National Support Programme. It is dedicated to thinking about ‘extra-familial harm’. What is extra-familial harm? Why can it be useful to think about some harms as ‘extra-familial’? And what does this mean for how services prevent and respond to these harms?
At the bottom of this page are links to resources published by the Contextual Safeguarding research team for you to read, download and use that will support you to understand and respond to the types of harms young people experience beyond their families.
These resources are the outcome of the many research projects the Contextual Safeguarding research team have carried out with children’s social care services, schools, the voluntary and community sector, young people, their parents, families and communities.
These resources will support you to:
- Develop an integrated understanding of ‘extra-familial harm’
- Develop assessments, plans and responses that target the contextual features of extra-familial harm
- Make systems changes to respond to the shared features of extra-familial harm using the Risk Outside the Home (ROTH) pathway
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Understanding and Responding to 'Extra-Familial' Harm: A Holistic ApproachA short briefing on the shared features of extra-familial harm -
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'The Next Chapter' ProjectAn update on the Contextual Safeguarding ‘domains’ and values -
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Working Together to Safeguard Children 2023 and Extra-Familial HarmKey additions and relevant Contextual Safeguarding resources for practice -
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The Conditions for a Welfare Response to Extra-Familial HarmWebinar and resources -
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Contextual Safeguarding: A 2020 Update on the Operational, Strategic and Conceptual FrameworkAn overview of the design and use of the Contextual Safeguarding framework
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Responding to the Shared Features of Extra-Familial HarmAn activity sheet for practitioners on the opportunities and challenges of developing holistic responses to extra-familial harm -
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The Significance of Extra-Familial Contexts: a Case Study ActivityAn interactive case study activity for practitioners to explore the significance of extra-familial contexts for assessing risk outside the home -
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Applying Thresholds to Extra-Familial HarmLearning from Hackney’s Child Wellbeing framework -
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'All Around Me' ToolDesigned to help practitioners gather information from a young person to build an understanding of the people and places that matter most in each of the identified contexts -
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'What's Happening?' ToolThis tool can help practitioners gather information about a parent or carer’s understanding of the strengths and vulnerabilities of a young person across identified contexts -
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Context Weighting ToolUse this tool to help visualise which contexts play a bigger role in young people's lives -
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Safety Mapping WebinarLearn about ‘safety mapping’ as a tool to understand safety and risk around young people -
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Safety MappingTools to help practitioners to identify areas of risk and safety and can be used for safety planning with children, families and networks -
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Context Assessment TrianglesBased on the ‘assessment triangle’, these updated resources can be used to assess peer, school and neighbourhood contexts -
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A Location Assessment Case StudyThis case study is about how a location assessment helped to make a park safer for young people
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Scale-Up ToolkitAll the resources you need to start thinking about creating a Contextual Safeguarding system -
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Responses and OutcomesUse these tools to consider two important aspects of Contextual Safeguarding: creating responses that increase safety for young people, and measuring the outcome of those responses
