This training will enable you to promote effective safeguarding in your local context. It will provide you with the tools to analyse the contexts within which violence affecting young people takes place. You will also gain an understanding into your role in making these spaces safer for young people, by utilising effective safeguarding strategies from the latest research and practice of contextual safeguarding. 

Give a summary of adolescent development, extra – familial harm and the limitations of a child protection system 

Develop an understanding of the Contextual Safeguarding Framework and practice some of the key methods such as context weighting and safety mapping 

Share emerging lessons and resources from test sites and give space for participants to embed learning within their own contexts.