Safeguarding Young People

Focusing on young people and adolescence, this book explores the complexity of contemporary adolescent safeguarding. It highlights evidence-informed practice and innovation in this area at the work, serving as an accessible and invaluable resource for all working with and supporting young people facing risk and harm.

Core themes covered by the book are the nature of harms facing some young people, the potential pitfalls of some professional responses, and the current legal framework for safeguarding young people where harm occurs outside the family home. It includes an overview of adolescent development, and argues for a holistic, systemic response that addresses the structural disadvantage facing many young people at risk and incorporates participatory and trauma-informed practice designed to promote resilience. It draws on innovative approaches in local areas, such as Transitional Safeguarding, to make the case for a person-centred, evidence-informed and rights-based approach to safeguarding young people.
As well as being invaluable to practitioners, managers and strategic leaders working in this field, this is also ideally suited to be a text for any social work course or professional development programme on adolescent safeguarding practice.

1.Introduction
Dez Holmes
2.Our Voice, Our Experience
Whitney Clark and Marley Hall (with Dez Holmes)
3.Understanding the age of adolescence
John Coleman and Ann Hagell
4.Growing pains: Developing safeguarding responses to adolescent harm
Helen Beckett and Jenny Lloyd
5.Young people negotiating intra and extra-familial harm and safety: social and holistic approaches
Lauren Wroe with Jenny Pearce
6.The Myth of the Universal Child
Jahnine Davis and Nick Marsh
7.Has the purpose outgrown the design?
Carlene Firmin and Rachel Knowles
8.Learning to love and trust again: a relational approach to developmental trauma
Kristi Hickle and Michelle Lefevre
9.Nothing about me without me
Nicky Hill and Camille Warrington
10.Transitional Safeguarding: Bridging the gap between children's and adults' safeguarding responses
Christine Cocker, Adi Cooper & Dez Holmes