We currently work with two training providers who are experts in Contextual Safeguarding and have been trained by our team to deliver Contextual Safeguarding training on our behalf. These are the only training providers to use content provided by the Global Centre for Contextual Safeguarding. Both organisations provide the same ‘Introduction to Contextual Safeguarding’ training. You can select a full day or half-day option. The training is exactly the same from both providers and covers the following learning objectives:
- Understand the evidence base that underpins a contextual approach to extra-familial harm
- Be able to explain the four domains and the values of the Contextual Safeguarding Framework and key elements of implementation
- Know where to access resources to support contextual systems and practice change and have examples of how they can be used
- Understand the key elements of the culture and the relationships required to support a Contextual Safeguarding system
Training providers
The providers of this training are Abianda and Power the Fight. Please see more information about each organisation below and contact them directly for training requests.
ABIANDA
We deliver training on Contextual Safeguarding and we are developing community-based Contextual Safeguarding work to build safety in physical spaces and places where young women and girls experience risk related to criminal exploitation and violence. Contextual safeguarding in embedded throughout all our work through:
- An emphasis on understanding the contexts and relationships that the young women and girls we work with experience on a day-to-day basis, with particular consideration of how this may impact, increase or mitigate risk related to criminal exploitation and violence
- A focus on contextual safeguarding throughout a number of our session plans and activities i.e. Contextual Safety Planning (in the community) and Contextualised Relationship Mapping. Some of these are also adapted to be used in group work by our Participation Team
- More broadly, we keep the team up to date with developments in research and resources from yourselves, considering how this informs our practice and how we can embody the core values and way of working throughout multi-agency spaces as well as in direct work
Contact: leanda@abianda.com
POWER THE FIGHT
In addition to delivering Contextual Safeguarding training, we use Contextual Safeguarding to inform the therapeutic work that we deliver to young people and families affected by violence and the professionals that work with them.
Our team are trained in Contextual Safeguarding as part of their induction, use resources such as safety mapping in their work and record contextual factors in their process notes to inform formulation and support plans. We are also working on a project with the GGCS at Durham University, exploring safety, behaviour policies and the connection between Contextual Safeguarding and cultural sensitivity in the secondary schools we are working in.
At Power The Fight we are particularly interested in how Contextual Safeguarding can help us take a culturally sensitive approach to working with young people and communities. This is being explored further through the VRU funded My Ends project which we are leading in Lewisham. Professor Carlene Firmin, who heads the Contextual Safeguarding Programme at Durham University, is a partner in the consortium delivering this project, supporting us to embed Contextual Safeguarding and test our contextual outcomes framework.
Contact: training@powerthefight.org.uk